EDWARDS,+Edward

EDWARDS, Edward (1812-1886) British Museum 1839-1850; 1CL Manchester 1851-1858; Earl of Macclesfield's Library 1860-1863; Queen's College, Oxford 1870-1876; Bodleian Library 1877-1882 Apart from his mostly unsatisfying period at MANCHESTER his professional life was passed mainly as a cataloguer; he otherwise earned his living by authorship. He is remembered, firstly, as the professional adviser of William Ewart (1798-1869) the Parliamentary pioneer of municipal libraries and, secondly, as the author of pioneer works on librarianship and library history, including //Memoirs of libraries// 2//v//. (1859): //Libraries and founders of libraries// (1864) and //Free town libraries// (1869). W A Munford //Edward Edwards// 1963.

Alistair Black, ‘ Edwards, Edward (1812–1886) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 24 Nov 2008 Edward Edwards (1812–1886): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8535