Alwyn Faber Scholfield

Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884-1969) was Cambridge University Librarian, 1923-1949. He attended Eton before coming to King's College, Cambridge, in 1903, where he gained a second in both parts of the Classical Tripos. After his degree he travelled abroad and taught for a year at Eton. From 1911-1912 he worked in Cambridge University Library on Classical and early printed books. In 1913 he went to Calcutta as Keeper of the Records of the Government of India. During part of his time there he served as officiating Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta. From 1919-1923 he worked in Cambridge as Librarian of Trinity College, until he was elected University Librarian in succession to Francis John Henry Jenkinson. He superintended the transfer of the University Library from the Old Schools to the new building in 1934, and created the Departmental organisation under which the Library functioned for many decades, laying down the Library's routine procedures with great thoroughness. He also edited Aelian, De natura animalium for the Loeb Classical Library (3 vols., 1958-1959), and Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments, with A.S.F. Gow (1953).

From the guide to the Alwyn Faber Scholfield: Papers, 1905-1968, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)

Epithet: Librarian of Cambridge University

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Alwyn Faber Scholfield (1884-1969) attended Eton before joining King's College, Cambridge, in 1903, where he gained a second in both parts of the classical tripos. After completing his studies, he travelled abroad and taught for a year at Eton. He worked in Cambridge University Library on classical and early printed books, 1911-1912, and in 1913 became Keeper of the Records of the Government of India, Calcutta. While in India, he was the officiating Librarian of the Imperial Library, Calcutta. Scholfield was Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1919-1923, and Cambridge University Librarian, 1923-1949. He superintended the transfer of the University Library from the Old Schools to its new building in 1934, and created the departmental organisation under which the Library functioned for many decades. He also edited Aelian, De natura animalium, for the Loeb Classical Library (3 vols, 1958-1959), and, with A.S.F. Gow, Nicander: the poems and poetical fragments (1953).

From the guide to the Alwyn Scholfield: Papers, 1905-1968, (Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives)