BOND,+Henry

BOND, Henry (1871-1917) Barrow-in-Furness 1887; 1CL Kendal 1892; 1CL Lincoln 1894; 1CL Woolwich 1901; 1CL St Pancras 1905; CL Portsmouth (HAMPSHIRE) 1914-1917 He had a frustrated and unhappy life, ended by suicide, yet deserves to be remembered as having initiated four public library systems and to have been largely responsible for editing the //LAR// following the resignation of Henry Guppy in 1903 and up to the time of his own death. J G Ollé ‘Prayers at Highgate’ (//LR// 21, //pp//351-356)

b. 23.11.1871 Barrow-in-Furness Kendal Jan. 1892-Nov. 1894 Lincoln from Nov. 1894 pres. of North Midland Library Association (YB 1897, 166; 1900, 158)