Harold Cyril Bibby

Harold Cyril Bibby (1914-1987) was born in Liverpool on 1 May 1914 and educated at Liverpool Collegiate School and Queens' College, Cambridge (B.A., 1935; M.A., 1939). He was an active member of the C.U. Socialist Society and of the Union Society. He taught science and biology at Oulton School, Liverpool, and Chesterfied Grammar School, Derbyshire. Bibby was Education Officer to the British Society Hygiene Council and then to the Central Council for Health Education, 1941-1946; Lecturer at the College of St Mark and St John, University of London Institute of Education, 1946-1959; and Principal of Kingston upon Hull College of Education from 1976. He retired in 1978 and died on 20 June 1987. He gained an M.Sc. at the University of Liverpool in 1940 for research on Europe in Quaternary times, and a Ph.D. at London University in 1955 for a thesis on T.H. Huxley. He wrote books and articles on Huxley, and on human biology, especially in the fields of health and sex education. In 1936 he married Frances Florence Mabel Hirst. They had two sons and two daughters. Mrs Bibby died in 1994.

From the guide to the Harold Cyril Bibby: Personal Papers, 20th century, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)