The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Thomas Thynne, 1st Viscount Weymouth (1640 - 28 Jul 1714)

Politician. He had "lifelong interest in manuscripts and coins" and probably collected the same (ODNB). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 23 November 1664. Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi-org.cyber.usask.ca/10.1093/ref:odnb/27424 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Thynne,_1st_Viscount_Weymouth Collector (minor)
 Relevant locations: Title (royalty or holy order) Weymouth, Dorset
 Relationships: Thomas Thynne was a member of Royal Society (-)

 References in Documents:
An Exact and particular Account of the rarities in the Anatomy School (Oxford MS Rawlinson C. 865) 381 A staff made out of one of the Rafters of K. Alfred the great's house, lately discover'd in Selwood Forest in Somerset-shire. Given by the right honourable the Lord Viscount Weymouth.
A Catalogue of the Benefactors to the Anatomy Schoole in Oxon. (Rawlinson Q.e. 36) Ld Weymouth gave A staff made of one of the Rafters of King Alfred's House, lately discovered in Selwood-Forest in Sommersetshire.
Petiver, Gazophylacii Naturæ (1702-1706) TAB. XLIEx dono D. M. Lister M. D.
[Fig: figures of objects in Table 41]
To the Right Houourable THOMAS Lord Viscount WEYMOUTH. This Table is humbly Dedicated by JAMES PETIVER, F. R. S.