BRADSHAW,+Henry

BRADSHAW, Henry (1831-1886) Cambridge University Library 1856-1858, 1859-1886 (CL 1867) Primarily a distinguished bibliographer, palaeographer and Chaucer scholar, he also did much to modernize his library's service. He published little; in common with many other librarians much of his exceptional scholarship was manifested in the publications of others among whom his helpfulness was a byword. He was LA President in 1882. G W Prothero //Memoir of Henry Bradshaw// (1888) R Stokes //Henry Bradshaw// (1984)

David McKitterick, ‘ Bradshaw, Henry (1831–1886) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Sept 2008