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Proctor, Robert George Collier, 1868-1903 (bibliographer)

 Person

Biography

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 of his life. Proctor devised a new Greek type and compiled an Index of early printed books to the year MD (1898). He disappeared while on a walking tour in Tyrol in 1903.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

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B.M. to [Charles Edward] Sayle, 31 Jan 1901

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8203/A/57
Scope and Contents From the File:

These were found mainly in envelopes bearing biographical information provided by Munby.

Dates: 31 Jan 1901
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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of Oxshott, to [Charles Edward] Sayle, 26 Jan 1902

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8203/A/58
Scope and Contents From the File:

These were found mainly in envelopes bearing biographical information provided by Munby.

Dates: 26 Jan 1902
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Robert George Collier Proctor: Correspondence and Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.4522
Scope and Contents

A collection of papers and letters, mostly by or to R. Proctor, relating to Greek type: (fo. 1) list of books in Cambridge University Library to be photographed for the Type Facsimile Society, October 1900, in the hand of R. Proctor and a second hand; (fo. 37) copy of the title-page of Bartholomew Traheron, Exposition of parte of S. Johannes Gospel ([Wesel], 1557), in the hand of R. Proctor; (fos 38-142) correspondence and accounts.

Dates: 1900-1909
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
 Fonds

Robert George Collier Proctor: Letters to George Dunn

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.5345
Dates: 1896-1903
Conditions Governing Access: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

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