Harold (Harry) Godfrey Rudolph King

Harold (Harry) Godfrey Rudolf King was born in 1921. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Air Force as a radio mechanic and an educational and vocational training instructor. By 1949, he had completed a degree in history at University College, London. Following training with the Library Association, he worked in the libraries of London University, the Institute of Historical Research and the Manchester Guardian before becoming librarian of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) in 1955.

In 1959, his position as head of the library became a University of Cambridge post with dual responsibility for overseeing the library and information centre. In 1976, he helped to set up the Skellerup Antarctic Library at the Canterbury Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand. He co-edited SPRI's nineteen-volume library catalogue, published in 1976, and has edited numerous publications, including The Antarctic diary of Victor Campbell, South Pole Odyssey and The Arctic, a guide to literature of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic . He retired from SPRI in 1983.

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