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SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS BOND (1815-1898)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 199 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD AUGUSTUS BOND (1815-1898)
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English librarian, was born at
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Hanwell on the 31st of December 1815, the son of a schoolmaster . He was educated at Merchant Taylors' school, and in 1832 obtained a
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post in thespublic record office . In 1838 he became an assistant in the fnanuscript department of the
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British Museum, where he attracted the
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notice of his chief,
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Sir Frederick Madden, the most eminent palaeographer of his day, and in 1852 he was made Egerton librarian . In 1856 he became assistant keeper of
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MSS., and in 1867 was promoted 'eo the post of keeper . His
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work in re-organizing the
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manuscript department was of lasting value, and to him is due the classified catalogue of MSS., and the improved efficiency and punctuality of publication of the department . In 1878 he was appointed
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principal librarian . Under his supervision were erected the new buildings of the " White Wing," which provide accommodation for prints, drawings,
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manuscripts and
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newspapers, and the
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purchase of the Stowe MSS. was concluded while he remained in office . He founded, in conjunction with Sir E . Maunde Thompson, the Palaeographical Society, and first made classical palaeography an exact science . He was made LL.D. of Cambridge in 1879, created C.B. in 1885, and K.C.B. the day before his
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death on the 2nd of
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January 1898 . He was the editor of four volumes of facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon charters from 679 to the
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Conquest, The Speeches in the Trial of Warren Hastings (1859-1861), and a number of other interesting historic documents .

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