XJF393811 Portrait of Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) (engraving) by Ryall, Henry Thomas (1811-67) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: English diplomat and scholar and founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, from a Protestant merchant family who went abroad to live during Mary\'s reign; returned when Elizabeth became Queen; attended Merton College, Oxford. gentleman-usher to Queen; mission to Denmark in 1585; to France in 1586; to the Hague as a minister in 1588; returned to England in 1596. His greatest achievement was the re-founding of the library which had been stripped and abandoned during the Reformation. The library later named the Bodleian Library in his honour); English, out of copyright.