Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867–1962) by Dorothy Webster Hawksley, 1951 © Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
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Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle (1867–1962), museum director and book collector, was born at Brighton on 16 July 1867, the second child (and second son) of the family of four sons and two daughters of Sydney John Cockerell (1842–1877), coal merchant, of London, and his wife, ...
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Dingwall, Eric John (1891
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B. C. Bloomfield
McColvin, Lionel Roy (1896–1976), librarian, was born on 30 November 1896 at Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne. He was the second son and third child of John Andrew McColvin, a portrait painter, and his wife, Isabel (née Stewart); there were two more children, of whom one, ...
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Edward Williams Byron Nicholson (1849–1912) by unknown engraver Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
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Mary Clapinson
Nicholson, Edward Williams Byron (1849–1912), librarian, was born on 16 March 1849 in Green Street, St Helier, Jersey, the only child of Edward Nicholson RN (1821–1850) and Emily Hamilton Wall (1821–1890), an actress. His father had left the navy in 1847 and died in ...
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Sampson, John (1862–1931), librarian and Romani scholar, was born on 25 February 1862 at Schull, co. Cork, the eldest son and third of the six children of James Sampson (1813–1871), a chemist and mining engineer of Cornish stock, and his wife, Sarah Anne Macdermott (1829–1907)...
