Certificate awarded to Henry Joseph Shuffrey

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MS. 23473

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Certificate awarded to Henry Joseph Shuffrey to mark his fifty years of employment at the Bodleian Library, signed by the senior staff, 10 January 1913.

Dates

Creation: 1913

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries, MS. 23473.

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Shelfmark:

MS. 23473

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 23473

Additional Description

Abstract

Certificate awarded to Henry Joseph Shuffrey.

Biographical / Historical

Henry Joseph Shuffrey was born in 1848 and brought up at Long Hanborough Manor near Oxford. In 1858 he obtained a choral scholarship at Christ Church Cathedral and in 1863 joined the Bodleian Library as an assistant. He remained at the Bodleian until 1920, chiefly working on the General Catalogue of Printed Books.

Shuffrey died on 27 December 1928. [Bodleian Quarterly Record, vol. V, no. 60, March 1929, page 309]