Edward Worth

Edward Worth

Edward Worth (1678-1733) was an Irish physician and book collector. He was born into a prosperous Church of Ireland family, his father being Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Worth studied medicine in Utrecht, Oxford and Leiden before practising as a doctor in Dublin. A financial windfall from an uncle helped him to establish a large book collection, bought from places such as London, the Netherlands, France and Dublin. On his death the collection consisted of some 4,400 books, many on medicine, dating back in some cases to the fifteenth century. The books are now in the library of the old Dr. Steevens's Hospital in Kilmainham, of which he was a governor. They have been stored well and are in remarkably good condition. [Article by Claire O'Connell in The Irish Times, 1 July 2008]

Edward Worth was an important figure in the Dublin of his day. He was a friend and contemporary of such people as Jonathan Swift, and his library is remarkable, not only for its size and variety, but also for the condition of the books, some of which are hundreds of years old but appear almost new.

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