Cockerell, Sir Sydney Carlyle, 1867-1962 (Knight, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, bibliographer)
Dates
- Existence: 1867 - 1962
Biography
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell (1867-1962), knight, director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and bibliographer, was born at Brighton on 16 July 1867. In May 1882 Cockerell entered St Paul's School, London, as a day-boy scholar but he remained there only until Christmas 1884, when he joined the family business, Geo. J. Cockerell & Co., of Cornhill, as a clerk. He was appointed director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1908, and remained there for twenty-nine years. He was a (short-term) fellow of Jesus College from 1910 to 1916, and after many years of deeply felt exclusion became a fellow of Downing from 1932 until his retirement in 1937 (when he was elected honorary fellow). He was knighted in 1934. For three years from 1936 Cockerell served as European adviser to the Felton trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, 1917-1954
Correspondence about postage stamps 1946-7, 1946-1947
Correspondents include John Carter, Sydney Cockerell, Council of Industrial Design (L. M. Hubbard, S. C. Leslie, C. G. Tomrley), GPO (C. O. Leigh-Clare), G. Harrison, and M. H. Middleton. With the letters are committee papers and memoranda.
Correspondence after publication, 1944-1960
Chiefly letters of thanks to Meynell for presentation copies. Among the writers are John Arlott, Sydney Cockerell, Alfred Fairbank, Rupert Hart-Davies, Richard De la Mare, and Osbert Sitwell.
Correspondence from Sir Sydney C. Cockerell (1867-1962) to Ethel Lindgren-Utsi, 20 Apr. 1926-Sep. 1933
Correspondence relating to the 1942 broadcast, 1941-1942
Meynell's correspondents are the BBC and listeners. These include Sydney Cockerell, Viola Dallyn, Elinor M. Darwin, Robert Delaney, T. Watts Eden, L. C. Jervis, Shane Leslie, Rosemary Marchant, W. J. M. McMaster, Augustus Ralli, William Rothenstein, E. F. M. Smith, and Catherine Street. With the letters is a Listener Research Report.
Correspondence relating to the University Printer's Christmas books., 1948-1976
Original letters to Crutchley (or occasionally John Dreyfus or others at the Press), and typescript carbon copies of letters from him. Most of the letters to Crutchley convey thanks for copies of the books.
Correspondence with readers, 1946-1947
Meynell's correspondents include Noel Carrington, Harry Carter, John Carter, Sydney Cockerell, Geoffrey Keynes, Richard de la Mare, James Nicolson, A. M. Pettigrew, Oliver Simon, Ralph Straus. Some of the letters mention corrections. With the correspondence are clippings of reviews.
Files on individual people
Letter from Sydney Cockerell (Cambridge) to Siegfried Sassoon sending congratulations on birth of George [Thornycroft Sassoon], 31 Oct. 1936
A collection of 1094 letters, postcards and other items known as 'Sassoon's residual correspondence' although it does also include a number of items addressed to other persons particularly to his wife, Hester, and his mother, Theresa Thornycroft.
Letter to Brooke Crutchley from Wilfred Blunt, 1975
Including 3 engravings of which 2 were printed as Christmas cards fro Mr and Mrs Sydney Cockerell in 1909 and 1912. With these are a reply to Blunt from E. H. Phillips.
Letter to Siegfried Sassoon from Sydney Cockerell concerning Thomas Hardy, 19 Jan. 1950
Originally inside front cover of the notebook at MS Add.9852/8/2.
Letters from Rogers to Sydney Cockerell, 1917
Letters from various correspondents (C) to Oliver Simon, 1938-1956
Letters are from Catherine Carrington (1953), John Carter (1942), Will Carter (1938, 1955), Iola Chagall (undated), Sydney Cockerell (1956), Douglas Cooper (undated), and Aldo Cosomati (1950).
Maggs Bros.: Correspondence to Sir Sydney Cockerell and Francis Jenkinson, 1917
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Marion Harry Spielmann: Letter to Sir Sydney Cockerell, 1915
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
notes concerning provenance of a manuscript, Cicero in Verrem orationes septem, c. 1476 in his collection, 1886-1962
Arranged, bound and listed by Munby, containing letters by collectors of books and manuscripts. The letters are arranged in order of the author's date of birth. There is also an alphabetical index.
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1938-1944
Four letters from Sir Sydney Cockerell and copies of two letters to Cockerell from EHY.
Sir Sydney Carlyle Cockerell: Correspondence to Francis Jenkinson, 1908-1915
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.
Sydney Cockerell, 1943-1961
This subseries consists mainly of files formerly in Meynell's boxes labelled 'People' and 'Nonesuch people'. Some other related papers are with the letters. The name of the item is the name of the correspondent. A few organizations are in this sequence along with individuals. Meynell's correspondence with his parents is in series A.