| LC control no. | nr 93010303 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Thynne, William, -1546 |
| Variant(s) | Thynne, William, d. 1546 Thynne, Wylliam, -1546 Thynn, William, -1546 Botfield, William, -1546 Boteville, William, -1546 |
| Associated country | England England and Wales |
| Associated place | London (England) |
| Located | Erith (London, England) Kent (England) |
| Death date | 15460810 |
| Field of activity | Editing Courts and courtiers Management Royal households--Management England. King's Household--Management Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting |
| Affiliation | England and Wales. Sovereign (1536-1547 : Henry VIII) England. Sovereign (1509-1536 : Henry VIII) England. King's Household England and Wales. King's Household |
| Profession or occupation | Editors Book editors Courts and courtiers Royal households--Officials and employees England. King's Household--Officials and employees Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting England and Wales. King's Household--Officials and employees |
| Found in | Chaucer, G. The woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, 1561: leaf [fleuron]2r (William Thynne) ESTC/BL files (edited by William Thynne) DNB (Thynne, William, d. 1546; editor of Chaucer's works) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The workes of Geffray Chaucer newly printed, 1532: leaf A2 verso (in dedication to Henry VIII: I your most humble vassall, subiecte and seruaunt Wylliam Thynne, chefe clerke of your kechyn) colophon (Printed at Lo[n]don, By Thomas Godfray. The yere of our lorde. M.D.xxxii) Chaucer, Geoffrey. The vvorkes of our ancient and learned English poet, Geffrey Chaucer, 1602: leaf c5 verso (in dedication to Henry VIII: I your most humble vassale, subiect and seruaunt, William Thynn, cheefe clerke of your kitchin) Oxford dictionary of national biography, 27 July 2015 (Thynne, William (d. 1546), literary editor; of obscure origins; his family bore the alternative surname of Botfield or Boteville, and he is also cited as "Thynne alias Boteville"; first certainly recorded in February 1524, when he is described as second clerk of the kitchen in Henry VIII's household; by October 1526 he was chief clerk of the kitchen; successive posts and indications of royal favour, including customer of wools, hides, and fleeces in the port of London, receiver-general of the earldom of March, one of the officers of the counting house, and by the year of his death, sole master of the household for the king; career as a courtier was conducted simultaneously with his literary activities, particularly his interest in Chaucer, which led to the publication of his first collected edition of The Workes of Geffray Chaucer in 1532, the outcome of sustained research and editing; owned a number of manuscripts of Chaucer's works; the 1532 edition provides the first printed editions of a number of Chaucer's major works in verse and prose; also contains a large number of works not by Chaucer, the first life of Chaucer, and a genealogy; 1542 reprinting of Thynne's edition of Chaucer; house in Erith, Kent; died on 10 August 1546, buried in the church of All Hallows Barking by the Tower) Editing Chaucer, 1984: Blodgett, James E. William Thynne (d. 1546), p. 35 (William Thynne's edition of Chaucer of 1532) p. 37 (a functionary in the royal household; rise through the bureaucratic ranks; his various positions were not sinecures; sometimes required to travel on government business) p. 41 (rescued neglected works of Chaucer; introduced many spurious works into Chaucer's canon) p. 50 (influence on the subsequent editing of Chaucer through several later 16th- and 17th-century editions, including his own edition of 1542 and his undated third edition) |
| Associated language | eng |
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