Record

Code	PX1826
Dates	1904-1993
Person Name	Sawyer; Frederick Charles (1904-1993)
Surname	Sawyer
Forenames	Frederick Charles
Activity	Museum Staff: Appointed Boy Attendant in Department of Entomology 1920; Attendant 1923. Transferred to Department of Zoology 1930. Head of the Zoological Library 1937-1966. From January to November 1941 he worked at Tring Museum to look after books evacuated from South Kensington to produce a catalogue of the natural history library of the late Lionel Walter Rothschild and to relieve the Tring librarian Phyllis Thomas to allow her to do more curation of bird types, etc. In November 1941 he went to the Admiralty (Thackray). In 1948 he compiled a typescript list of the books in the Rothschild Library at Tring. Retired 1966, but contintued to work in libraries for some years afterwards. Awarded MBE in 1964.

Catalogue

RefNo	Title
DF/ZOO/271/23	Sawyer, Frederick Charles: reminiscences of the Zoology Library 1920-1964, and Tring Museum 1937-1947, with comments on patronage
DF/ZOO/208/128	Staff file: Sawyer, Frederick C
DF/PH/4/15/25	Work of the Museum Temporary Exhibition: Library, examining Richard Owen drawings
DF/PH/2/6/11	Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department
DF/ZOO/271	Zoology Library Correspondence, Memoranda and papers
DF/ZOO/270	Zoology Library Accession Records
DF/PH/2/1/4/1	Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph)

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