MA (Edin.), PhD (Aberdeen)

Librarian

Fourth President of the Society, 1957-60

Original member of the Society

Held assistant librarian posts successively in Edinburgh and Aberdeen before becoming Librarian first of King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, and finally of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Organised memorable meetings of the Society in Aberdeen and Newcastle upon Tyne. An expert on early Scottish bookbinding he wrote a History of Scottish Bookbinding, 1432-1650 (Aberdeen University Studies No. 134) in 1955.