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| | News | Gainesville.com | The Gainesville Sun | Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Christopher Codrington (1668 - April 7, 1710), British soldier and colonial governor, whose father (also named Christopher Codrington) was captain-general of the Leeward Islands, was born in the island of Barbados, West Indies, in 1668. |
 | | Codrington died on the 7th of April 1710, bequeathing his slave plantations to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts for the foundation of a college in Barbados. |
 | | To All Souls College, Oxford, he bequeathed books worth £6000 and £10,000 in money, from which was built and endowed the Codrington Library there. |
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