John M. Crawford, Jr.

Donald Frizell Hyde, a celebrated collector of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, was born in Chillicothe, Ohio, on 17 April 1909. He graduated from Ohio State University in 1929 and from Harvard Law School in 1932. In 1962 he received the honorary degree of LittD from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, and was appointed an honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. Hyde took a central part in publications and/or societies devoted to Shakespeare, Johnson, Boswell, Keats, and Shelley; in the Grolier Club, of which he was elected member in 1943 and served as president from 1961 to 1965; in the Bibliographical Society of America; in the Roxburghe Club, of which he was one of the few American members; and in the Pierpont Morgan, the New York Public, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton libraries. He was also governor of Dr. Johnson's House, an honorary vice-president of the Johnson Society, Lichfield, and a founding member of The Johnsonians. Hyde died of cancer on 5 February, 1966, and was survived by his wife Mary Hyde (later Eccles), also a renown collector of Johnsoniana.

From the description of Donald Frizell Hyde, 1909-1966 [scrapbook], [ca. 1965-1968] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79458571

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