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Sandars Reader In Bibliography
The Sandars Readership in Bibliography is an annual lecture series given at Cambridge University. Instituted in 1895 at the behest of Mr Samuel Sandars of Trinity College (1837–1894), who left a £2000 bequest to the University, the series has continued down to the present day. Together with the Panizzi Lectures at the British Library and the Lyell Lectures at Oxford University, it is considered one of the major British bibliographical lecture series. Lectures * 1895 Sir Edward Maunde Thompson: Greek, Latin and English handwriting. * 1896 C. H. Middleton-Wake: The invention of printing. * 1897 W. H. Stevenson: Anglo-Saxon Chancery. * 1898 E. Gordon Duff: The printers, stationers and book-binders of Westminster and London in the 15th Century. * 1899 J. W. Clark: The care of books (to the end of the 18th century). * 1900 F. G. Kenyon: The development of Greek writing, BC 300–AD 900. * 1901 H. Y. Thompson: English and French illustrated MSS. of the 13th–15th centuries. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, FBA (12 December 1872 – 20 January 1940) was one of the leading bibliographers and Shakespeare scholars of the 20th century. Life R. B. McKerrow was born in Putney, son of Alexander McKerrow, a civil engineer, and Mary Jane Brunlees, daughter of Sir James Brunlees, a president of the Institution of Civil Engineers. His paternal grandfather was William McKerrow, a noted cleric in the Presbyterian Church. He died in Picket Piece (Wendover, Buckinghamshire) where he was buried.W. W. Greg, 'McKerrow, Ronald Brunlees (1872–1940)', rev. John V. Richardson Jr., ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 200accessed 14 Sept 2009/ref> He was educated at Harrow, at King's College, London, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He then taught English for three years in Tokyo (1897–1900), where he learnt Japanese. Following his return to London, he became a director of the publishing house Sidgwick and Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Leigh
Ralph Alexander Leigh (6 January 1915 – 22 December 1987) was a modern languages scholar, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Professor of French in the University of Cambridge from 1973 to 1982, later Sandars Reader in Bibliography, in 1986–87. He specialized in the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Born to Jewish parents, he was educated at Raine's School for Boys in Bethnal Green, Queen Mary College, London, and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He served in the British Army during the Second World War from 1941, was commissioned as a Lieutenant in 1942, promoted Major, 1944, and returned to civilian life in 1946, when he was appointed a lecturer in the Department of French at the University of Edinburgh. In 1967 he took up a Fulbright Scholarship at Princeton. From 1969 to 1973 he was a Reader and Senior Research Fellow in the University of Cambridge, and in 1973 a Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne.'LEIGH, Ralph Alexander', in ''Who Was Who'' (London: A & C Black) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruari McLean
John David Ruari McLean CBE, DSC (10 June 1917 – 27 March 2006) was a leading British typographic designer. Early life and apprenticeship Ruari McLean was born in Scotland on 10 June 1917, in Newton Stewart, Galloway. He was educated at the Dragon School and Eastbourne College. He was apprenticed in the printing trade at the Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, where he worked on limited edition fine books. He went on to train in Germany and at the Edinburgh School of Printing, and worked at Waterlow and Sons Printing in Dunstable, Bedfordshire and at ''The Studio'' magazine. In 1938 he joined the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency, later moving to Lund Humphries printing in Bradford, Yorkshire. McLean was profoundly influenced by the work of Jan Tschichold, the German typographer, and he visited him at his home in Switzerland shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. Wartime service During the war, he served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, acting as the Brit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Foxon
David Fairweather Foxon, FBA (9 January 1923 – 5 June 2001) was an English bibliographer. Noted for his study of books and literature in 18th-century England, he was the Reader in Textual Criticism at the University of Oxford from 1968 to 1982. Early life and education Born in Devon on 9 January 1923, Foxon was the son of a Methodist minister from a family of weavers. He studied at Kingswood School before winning a scholarship to read classics at Magdalen College, Oxford. But, with the outbreak of the Second World War his move to Oxford was interrupted and the headmaster at his school, A. B. Sackett, recommended him to the Government Code and Cypher School. Foxon served in a civilian capacity as a code breaker at Bletchley Park from 1942 to 1944, when he was transferred to Ceylon. After demobilisation, he resumed his studies at Oxford in 1946, reading English; C. S. Lewis was one of his tutors. Graduating with a BA in 1948, he initially began studying towards the BLitt, but op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald McKenzie (academic)
Donald Francis McKenzie, FBA (5 June 1931 – 22 March 1999) was a New Zealand bibliographer and literary scholar. He was professor of bibliography and textual criticism at the University of Oxford from 1989 to 1996. Early life and education Born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a bootmaker, McKenzie was educated at various schools, the last being Palmerston North Boys' High School, before joining the New Zealand Post Office in 1948. He continued his studies part-time at Victoria University College, Wellington (BA 1954; DipJourn 1955; MA 1957) and briefly taught at the institution, before obtaining a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a PhD in 1961. Initially he researched the working conditions of printers in the age of Shakespeare under the supervision of Philip Gaskell but abandoned that topic in favour of a study of early printing presses specifically Cambridge's presses. Career McKenzie's research on the archives of Cambridge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Noel Latimer Munby
Alan Noel Latimer ('Tim') Munby (1913–1974) was an English author, writer and librarian. Life and career Born in Hampstead, Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge. He is best known for his five-volume study of the eccentric nineteenth-century book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, and for his slim volume of ghost stories, ''The Alabaster Hand'', which includes three tales written in Oflag VII B, a German prisoner-of-war camp near Eichstätt, during World War II. These stories – 'The Topley Place Sale', 'The Four Poster' and 'The White Sack' – featured in a prison-camp magazine, ''Touchstone'', edited by Elliott Viney, which was produced on a printing press owned by the Bishop of Eichstätt, Michael Rackl. Munby worked in the antiquarian book trade with Bernard Quaritch, Limited (1935–37) and Sotheby & Company (1937–39, 1945–47). He became Librarian at King's College, Cambridge in 1947 and Fellow in 1948; he was J. P. R. Lyell Reader in Biblio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Henderson Roberts
Colin Henderson Roberts (8 June 1909 – 11 February 1990) was a classical scholar and publisher. He was Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press between 1954 and 1974. Biography Roberts was born on 8 June 1909 in Queen Elizabeth Walk, Stoke Newington, London. His elder brother, Brian Richard Roberts, was later the editor of ''The Sunday Telegraph''. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read Classics, taking Firsts in both Honour Moderations and '' literae humaniores'' and was elected to the Craven University Fellowship. In 1934 he was elected a Junior Research Fellow at St John's, and remained a fellow there until 1976. Under the influence of his tutors, Roberts became interested in papyrology and in the history of the book in ancient times. He participated in the excavations at Karanis organized by the University of Michigan, and published some Biblical papyri in the collections of the John Rylands Library. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Pollard
Henry Graham Pollard (known as Graham Pollard) (7 March 1903 – 15 November 1976) was a British bookseller and bibliographer. Early life Pollard was the son of the historian Albert Pollard and was born in Putney, London on 7 March 1903. After studying at Shrewsbury School, Pollard studied history for one year at University College, London before winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford in 1921, obtaining a third-class degree in history in 1924. At Oxford he was part of the Hypocrites' Club. In that year he married Kay Beauchamp, pioneering Communist and women's rights campaigner. (Their marriage was dissolved in 1972). Career Even whilst he was a student, he was well known as a book collector, and bought part of a booksellers' business (Birrell and Garnett) in London. He became managing director in 1927, with the company producing many noted catalogues in the 1920s and 1930s, some of which were to become standard works of reference. Pollard's knowledge of his subje ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredson Bowers
Fredson Thayer Bowers (April 25, 1905 – April 11, 1991) was an American bibliographer and scholar of textual editing. Life Bowers was a graduate of Brown University and Harvard University (Ph.D.). He taught at Princeton University before moving to the University of Virginia in 1938. Bowers served as a commander in the United States Navy during World War II leading a group of codebreakers. In 1947 he led a group of faculty and interested local citizens in founding the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, of which he served as president for many years. He founded its annual publication, '' Studies in Bibliography'', which became a leading journal in the field. Bowers was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1958. In 1969 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Bibliographical Society (of London). He retired in 1975 and at the time of his death, he was Linden Kent Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia. His second wife, novelist Nancy Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Ripley Ker
Neil Ripley Ker (; 1908–1982) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature. He was Reader in Palaeography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford until he retired in 1968. He is known especially for his ''Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon'', which is praised as a milestone in Anglo-Saxon manuscript study. Biography Ker was born in Brompton, London, and was educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford, completing a BA in English Language and Literature in 1931 and a BLitt in 1933. During the Second World War he was a conscientious objector. In 1945 he was elected a fellow of Magdalen College and in 1946 University Reader in Palaeography. In 1968 he retired from his roles at Oxford to focus on his largest work, ''Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries''. He completed the first two volumes and most of the third and left a draft of the fourth. Legacy Annually, the British Academy The British Academy is the United Kingdom's nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Stanley Bennett
Henry Stanley Bennett, FBA (15 January 1889 – 5 June 1972) was an English literary historian. Known as Stanley Bennett and publishing as H. S. Bennett, he was an authority on medieval England. He wrote ''Life on the English Manor'' (1937), and subsequently wrote extensively on literature of the 15th and 16th centuries. Education and family Bennett was educated initially at St Mark's College in Chelsea, and after graduation became a schoolmaster at a London elementary school. After being invalided during the final stages of the Great War, he returned to England and gained admission to study at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1920, Bennett married the literary critic Joan Frankau. Their son, Christopher S. Bennett, was a contemporary of the writer Simon Raven at King's College, Cambridge; he went into the Treasury, and disappeared (possibly intentionally, given a work dispute and his hosting of several parties before his departure) in September 1966 whilst on a walking tour of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
