BOND,+Edward+Augustus+(Sir)

BOND, Sir Edward Augustus (1815-1898) Public Record Office 1833; British Museum 1838-1888 (Assistant Keeper of MSS 1854, Keeper 1866; CL1878) In the Department of MSS he coped with accumulated arrears and updated the service. Electric lighting, the telephone and mobile shelving were all introduced into the BM during his Principal Librarianship but his major achievement was the printed catalogue (GK1) although this was not completed until after his retirement. He was LA President in 1886. B McCrimmon //Power, politics and print: the publication of the BM Catalogue 1881-1900.// (1981).

Michael Borrie, ‘ Bond, Sir Edward Augustus (1815–1898) ’, //Oxford Dictionary of National Biography//, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 9 Sept 2008