KERSLAKE

Thomas . b. Exeter, July 1812; second-hand bookseller with his brother-in-law Samuel Cornish in Barton alley, Bristol 1830–9, alone at Park st. 1839–70; he acquired a reputation as a bookseller that has been eclipsed only by B. Quaritch, his catalogues were literary curiosities; collected antiquarian and archæological books, many of which were destroyed in a fire 1860; author of The word ‘Metropolis.’ The ancient word Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Saxon Bristol and Fo il Taunton. Three e ays. Bristol 1880; Traces of the ancient kingdom of Damn on i a outside Cornwall in remains of Celtic hagiology 1878; Vestiges of the supremacy of Mercia in the south of England 1878. d. Wynfred, Clevedon 5 Jany. 1891. Index catalogue of the Somerset archæological society library, Taunton (1889) p. 99; N. and Q. 3 Ser. ix 193, 398 (1866); Athenæum 10 Jany. 1891 p. 53.