James Bindley

(1739-1818)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bindley, James, 1739-1818 NRA: Bindley James (1737-1818) commissioner of stamp duties book collector DNB: Bindley, James (1739-1818), book collector LBT ID: JaBindl1818 VIAF ID: 121937048 LOC ID: no2009021444	B/BAP: 1739-01-05 DIED: 1818-09-11
SOURCES: Gentleman's Magazine (September 1818) 280; DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Educated at Charterhouse and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, he was commissioner of the stamp office (1765) and one of London's most notable book-collectors, the Leontes of Dibdin's Bibliographic Decameron (1817).
REFERENCES TO James Bindley: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 20 February 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1806