Wright, C. E. (Cyril Ernest)
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Paleographers
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found: The diary of Humfrey Wanley, 1715-1726, 1966:t.p. (C.E. Wright)
found: OCLC, Sept. 5, 2000(hdg.: Wright, Cyril Ernest; usage: C.E. Wright)
found: The National Archives [UK], via WWW, 30 May 2018(Wright, Cyril Ernest (1907-1980), palaeographer and bibliographer)
found: Archives Hub, via WWW, 30 May 2018(Cyril Ernest Wright was born in 1907 and was educated at George Watson's College, Edinburgh. He received an MA in English Language and Literature with first class Honours in 1929 from Edinburgh University. At Clare College, Cambridge he received first class Honours in Archaeological and Anthropological Tripos in 1931 and in 1936 he was awarded a PhD. for his thesis on The Cultivation of Saga during the Dark Ages . His career was spent in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Museum where he became assistant keeper in 1933. After being seconded to the Telegraphic Censorship and Home Office during the War, Wright returned to the British Museum to take up the post of Deputy Keeper of manuscripts in 1955. He was Senior Deputy Keeper from 1961 to his retirement in 1972. Wright was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1941 and served on several of the Society's committees including the Croft Lyons Committee from 1957 until his death. He was a member of the British Records Association from 1940 to 1970. He contributed to 30 publications during his career on subjects such as Icelandic, Anglo-Saxon, and Middle English literature, on palaeography and on heraldry; and the history of collectors and libraries, from the dispersal of the monastic libraries to the collections of the eighteenth century. He died in 1980.)
found: Ancestrry.com, 30 May 2018(Cyril Ernest Wright; born 21 February 1907; died 9 November 1980; of 82 Vera Av, London)
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2000-09-05: new
2018-05-31: revised
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