Marble bust of Thomas Phillips (1760-1851)
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Thomas Phillips donated some 22,500 books to St David's College Lampeter, which, when added to the collections given and bequeathed by Bishop Burgess and the Bowdler family, made the library of the infant college the largest and most comprehensive in Wales.
Source: John Morgan-Guy, 'From the Coral Strand to the Dulais Brook: Thomas Phillips (1760-1851)' in 'A bold imagining: University of Wales Lampeter 1827-2002', eds Keith Robbins and John Morgan-Guy, 2003
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