Ralph Tregrision, John Shillingford, John Bodley, and Thomas Bodley blue plaque
Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom
The Dean and Chapter of Exeter in 1394–5 built a house on this site in which John Shillingford, a notable mayor, resided from 1423 to 1458. From 1543 to 1554 John Bodley, merchant, lived there and it is accepted that it was the birthplace of his son, Sir Thomas Bodley, founder of the Bodleian Librar
y, Oxford, who was born in Exeter on 2nd March 1544.
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