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Edward Worth (1678–1733) was an Irish politician, physician and book collector. He was born into a prosperous Church of Ireland family, his father being John Worth (1648-1688), Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, who was a younger son of Edward Worth (1620-1669), Bishop of Killaloe and his wife Susannah Pepper. Worth studied medicine in Oxford (martriculated 1693), Leiden and Utrecht (MD 1701) before practising as a doctor in Dublin. A financial windfall from an uncle helped him to establish a large book collection, bought from places such as London, the Netherlands, France and Dublin. On his death the collection consisted of some 4,400 books, many on medicine, dating back in some cases to the fifteenth century. The books are now in the library of the old Dr. Steevens's Hospital in Kilmainham, of which he was a governor. They have been stored well and are in remarkably good condition.〔Article by Claire O'Connell in The Irish Times, 1 July 2008〕 Edward Worth was an important figure in the Dublin of his day. He was a friend and contemporary of such people as Jonathan Swift, and his library is remarkable, not only for its size and variety, but also for the condition of the books, some of which are hundreds of years old but appear almost new. Between 1715 and 1727, Worth sat in the Irish House of Commons for New Ross. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1699.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Library and Archive Catalogue )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Worth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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