Scholfield, Alwyn Faber, 1884-1969 (Cambridge University Librarian)
Dates
- Existence: 1884 - 1969
Biography
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).
Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:
Michael Cressé Potter: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1925
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Papers of Alwyn Faber Scholfield
Miscellaneous papers, including notebooks, sketchbooks, diaries, correspondence, poems, printed papers and photographs.
Papers on Recataloguing Cambridge University Manuscripts
Reports, correspondence and lists of manuscripts for M.R. James's recataloguing of Cambridge University Library medieval manuscripts.
Percy Lubbock: Correspondence to Charles Sayle and A.F. Scholfield, 1920-1921
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Philip Bainbrigge's 'Dialogus', 30 July 1934 (Circa)
'Rewards and Fairies'
Robert Seymour Bridges: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1923
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Robert William Chapman: Correspondence to A.F. Scholfield and Charles Sayle, 1923-1925
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Sir Stephen Gaselee: Correspondence to Francis Jenkinson, Charles Sayle, S.C. Roberts and A.F. Scholfield, 1918-1935
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
William Warwick Buckland: Letter to A.F. Scholfield, 1932
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
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- ARCHON code (for CUL materials)
- Archives and MSS Dept. (GBR/0012) 34
- University Archives (GBR/0265) 1
- Type
- Archival Object 30
- Collection 5
- Subject
- Classical literature 1
- Libraries 1
- Poetry 1
- Prose 1