William Dunn Macray (1826–1916) was an English librarian, cleric and historian.
Macray was ordained and graduated MA. He was a
Fellow
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of
Magdalen College, Oxford
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, and worked at the
Bodleian Library from 1845 to 1905. He received the degree
Doctor of Letters
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(D.Litt.) ''
honoris causa'' from the
University of Oxford
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in June 1902.
He is best known for his ''Annals of the Bodleian Library'' (1868), an institutional history of the library; a second edition was published in 1890.
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Works by William Dunn Macrayat
The Online Books Page
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1826 births
1916 deaths
English librarians
19th-century English historians
19th-century English Anglican priests