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See also:SIR See also:EDWARD See also:AUGUSTUS See also:BOND (1815-1898)
, See also:English librarian, was See also:born at See also:Hanwell on the 31st of See also:December 1815, the son of a schoolmaster
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He was educated at See also:Merchant Taylors' school, and in 1832 obtained a See also:post in thespublic See also:record See also:office
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In 1838 he became an assistant in the fnanuscript See also:department of the See also:British Museum, where he attracted the See also:notice of his See also:chief, See also:Sir See also:Frederick See also:Madden, the most eminent palaeographer of his See also:day, and in 1852 he was made See also:Egerton librarian
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In 1856 he became assistant keeper of See also:MSS., and in 1867 was promoted 'eo the post of keeper
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His See also:work in re-organizing the See also:manuscript department was of lasting value, and to him is due the classified See also:catalogue of MSS., and the improved efficiency and punctuality of publication of the department
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In 1878 he was appointed See also:principal librarian
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Under his supervision were erected the new buildings of the
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