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  1. 1545-1613. English scholar and diplomat,
  2. after whom the Bodleian Library in Oxford is
  3. named. After retiring from Queen Elizabeth
  4. I's service in 1597, he restored the
  5. university's library, which was opened as the
  6. Bodleian Library 1602. The library had
  7. originally been founded in the 15th century
  8. by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1391-1447).
  9.