Robert George Collier Proctor: Correspondence and Papers 1900-1909

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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliophile, was born at Manchester on 2 July 1792, and attended Rugby and University College, Oxford. Over the course of his life Phillipps developed an extensive collection of books and manuscripts, including old Welsh poetry and oriental manuscripts. Around 1822 he established a private printing press, and thereafter printed cartularies, genealogies, visitations, extracts from registers, and catalogues of manuscripts held in libraries. He was cr...

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Robert George Collier Proctor

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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...

Proctor, Robert, 1868-1903

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Robert Proctor (1868-1903) was an English bibliographer and author. He went missing while climbing in the Alps in September, 1903 and was never seen again. Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (16 July 1867-1 May 1962) was an English museum curator and collector. From the description of Robert Proctor letter : London, England, to [Sir Sydney Carlyle] Cockerell, 1903 [Mar.?] 30. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 758720146 ...