Robert George Collier Proctor

Robert George Collier Proctor (1868-1903), bibliographer, was born in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, on 13 May 1868. He was educated at a preparatory school in Reading and at Marlborough College, before joining Bath College in 1881. In 1886 he entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A., 1890). Proctor worked at the Bodleian Library from 1891 to 1893, where he catalogued incunabula. In 1893 he became assistant in the printed books department at the British Museum, where he was employed for the rest of his life. Proctor devised a new Greek type and compiled an Index of early printed books to the year MD (1898). He disappeared while on a walking tour in Tyrol in 1903.

From the guide to the Robert George Collier Proctor: Correspondence and Papers, 1900-1909, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Epithet: bibliographer, d1903

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Robert George Collier Proctor (1868-1903), bibliographer, was born in Budleigh Salterton, Devon, on 13 May 1868. He was educated at a preparatory school in Reading and at Marlborough College, before joining Bath College in 1881. In 1886 he entered Corpus Christi College, Oxford (B.A., 1890). Proctor worked at the Bodleian Library from 1891 to 1893, where he catalogued incunabula. In 1893 he became assistant in the printed books department at the British Museum, where he was employed for the rest of his life. Proctor devised a new Greek type and compiled an Index of early printed books to the year MD (1898). He disappeared while on a walking tour in Tyrol in 1903.

George Dunn of Woolley Hall, Maidenhead (d. 1912), was a member of Type Facsimile Society, founded by Robert Proctor, and the Bibliographical Society. He was interested in aboriculture, astronomy and horology, and was an antiquarian. His library was sold at Sotheby's after his death.

From the guide to the Robert George Collier Proctor: Letters to George Dunn, 1896-1903, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)