Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962, Knight, Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (English museum curator and collector, 1867-1962)
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English museum director, art historian and collector.
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was born on July 16, 1867. He married Florence Kate Kingsford (d. 1949) in 1907, and had two daughters and one son. From 1889-1892, he worked as a coal merchant before going to work as a secretary to William Morris and the Kelmscott Press 1892-1898. At the age of 70, Cockerell retired after being the director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge for 30 years (1908-1937). He was the literary executor of William Morris, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and Thomas Hardy. He was knighted on 1934 by the King of England. For the last 10 years of his life, he was confined to his bed with heart problems. He died on May 1, 1962.
Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
English museum director and book collector.
Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962) was an English book collector and an authority on illuminated manuscripts. Active in literary circles, he was private secretary to William Morris (thereby becoming a major collector of Kelmscott Press books) and was Thomas Hardy's executor. For thirty years (1908-1937) he was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
English author and academic.
Cockerell was an English bibliophile.
Epithet: Director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Title: Knight
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), museum director and book-collector, was born in Brighton, son of Sydney John Cockerell and his wife Alice Elizabeth. He was educated briefly at St. Paul's School, London, before entering the family business Geo. J. Cockerell and Co. of Cornhill, as a clerk. Following the early death of his father, he gave up aspirations for a university career and went into a coal business with his two uncles until 1891. Through a family friend, Octavia Hill, he met John Ruskin, with whom he corresponded throughout the remainder of Ruskin's life. Through William Morris, he joined the committee of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, and was employed by Morris to catalogue his library of manuscripts and early printed books. He was secretary to the poet and traveller Wilfred Scawen Blunt for a brief period, and was also manuscript advisor to Henry Yates Thompson. He then went into an engraving partnership with Emery Walker between 1900-1904.
Following the illness of his wife, (Florence) Kate Thompson, manuscript illuminator and artist, he became director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, on the resignation of Montague Rhodes James in 1908. He was to hold the post for a period of twenty-nine years. He was a member of the Roxburghe Club from 1915, and was a keen manuscript and book collector. He was knighted in 1934, and retired to Richmond where he later died.
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Artists
Autographs
Book collectors
Book collectors
Collectors and collecting
Poets, English
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Literature
Museum directors
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