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CodePX1826
Dates1904-1993
Person NameSawyer; Frederick Charles (1904-1993)
SurnameSawyer
ForenamesFrederick Charles
ActivityMuseum 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.
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DF/ZOO/208/128Staff file: Sawyer, Frederick C 
DF/ZOO/271/23Sawyer, Frederick Charles: reminiscences of the Zoology Library 1920-1964, and Tring Museum 1937-1947, with comments on patronage 
DF/PH/4/15/25Work of the Museum Temporary Exhibition: Library, examining Richard Owen drawings 
DF/ZOO/271Zoology Library Correspondence, Memoranda and papers 
DF/ZOO/270Zoology Library Accession Records 
DF/PH/2/1/4/1Staff Group Photograph: 'The Establishment' (Full Staff Photograph) 
DF/PH/2/6/11Staff Group Photograph: Zoology Department 
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