Craster, Sir Herbert Henry Edmund, 1879-1959 (Knight, historian and librarian)
Biography
Sir Herbert Henry Edmund Craster (1879-1959), knight, historian and librarian, was born at the family seat, Beadnell Hall, Northumberland, on 5 November 1879. He was educated at Clifton College and as a scholar of Balliol College, Oxford (1898-1903), where he took first classes in Greats and in modern history, and in 1903 he was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College. In 1912 Craster was appointed sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, working especially on the Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts. He was promoted keeper of Western manuscripts in 1927 and in 1931 succeeded Sir Arthur Cowley as Bodley's librarian.
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Sir Herbert Henry Edmund Craster: Correspondence to Francis Jenkinson and M.R. James, 1912-1927
Artificial collection of single item or small collection accessions. Mainly correspondence but includes other papers.