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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. His father's eldest brother William Worth was an eminent judge. Edward's mother was named Comfort: she died in 1681. Edward was one of about ten children but only he and his brother Michael reached adulthood. Worth studied medicine in Oxford (matriculated 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. Worth left his library, then valued at £5,000, to Dr Steevens' Hospital in Kilmainham, of which he was a governor. The hospital built a special room to house the books, which remain there today.[1] According to a 2008 Irish Times article, the books have been stored well and are in remarkably good condition.[2] 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.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in January 1699.[4] References1. ^{{cite web |url=http://edwardworthlibrary.ie/ |title=The Edward Worth Library |author= |date=2015 |website=Edwardworthlibrary.ie |accessdate=20 December 2015 |quote=...[T]he website of the Edward Worth Library (1733).}} 2. ^{{cite news|last=O'Connell |first=Claire |date=2008-07-01 |title=A Library of Worth |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a-library-of-worth-1.941936 |newspaper=The Irish Times |location=Dublin |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20160922130856/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a-library-of-worth-1.941936 |archivedate=22 September 2016 |deadurl=no |accessdate=22 September 2016 |df=dmy }} 3. ^{{cite book |last=Kirkpatrick |first=Thomas Percy Claude |year=2008 |title=The History of Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin 1720-1920 |location=Dublin |publisher=University College Dublin |ISBN=1-906359-16-4}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27worth%27%29 |title=Library and Archive Catalogue |publisher=Royal Society |accessdate=1 November 2010 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} External links
Jeffrey Paul }}{{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for New Ross | with = Thomas Meredyth | years = 1715 – 1727 }}{{s-aft| after = Charles Tottenham John Leigh }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Worth, Edward}}{{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub}} 11 : 1678 births|1733 deaths|Politicians from County Dublin|17th-century Irish people|18th-century Irish people|17th-century Irish medical doctors|18th-century Irish medical doctors|Irish MPs 1715–27|Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Wexford constituencies|Fellows of the Royal Society|Alumni of Merton College, Oxford |
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