Povey, Kenneth, 1898-1965; Basil William Sholto Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Amulree, 1900-1983

Kenneth Povey (1898-1965) was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon, and, after service in the Great War, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, graduating in 1921. He worked briefly in his father's textile firm in London before taking a Diploma in Librarianship at University College, London. His subsequent career saw him as Librarian of Queen's University, Belfast (1930-38), and of the University of Liverpool (1938-61). His main academic interests were in the techniques of early printing and in William Cowper (an edition being incomplete at his death) and George Crabbe. An obituary, listing his publications, appeared in The Library: Transactions of the Bibliographical Society for March 1968 (copy in file 1/8).

In the late 1920s, in the early volumes of Sussex County Magazine, he published a string of articles on Sussex poets:

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