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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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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 . 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 . 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 . In 1856 he became assistant keeper of See also:MSS., and in 1867 was promoted 'eo the post of keeper . 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 . In 1878 he was appointed See also:principal librarian . Under his supervision were erected the new buildings of the " See also:White Wing," which provide See also:accommodation for prints, drawings, See also:manuscripts and See also:newspapers, and the See also:purchase of the See also:Stowe MSS. was concluded while he remained in office . He founded, in See also:conjunction with Sir E . Maunde See also:Thompson, the Palaeographical Society, and first made classical See also:palaeography an exact See also:science . He was made LL.D. of See also:Cambridge in 1879, created C.B. in 1885, and K.C.B. the day before his See also:death on the 2nd of See also:January 1898 . He was the editor of four volumes of facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon charters from 679 to the See also:Conquest, The Speeches in the Trial of See also:Warren See also:Hastings (1859-1861), and a number of other interesting historic documents .

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