Morshead, Sir Owen Frederick (1893–1977), Pepys Librarian and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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Morshead, Sir Owen Frederick (1893–1977), Pepys Librarian and Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge

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  • Sir Owen Frederick Morshead, GCVO, KCB, DSO, MC, Légion d'Honneur

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      28 September 1893 – 1 June 1977

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      Matriculated from Magdalene in 1913. Made a Fellow in 1920; Appointed Pepys Librarian, 1920-1926, Life Fellow, 1963.
      Librarian of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, 1926–1958, and Deputy Keeper of the Royal Archives from 1930.
      Author of Everybody's Pepys (1926).

      Obituary in the College Magazine, vol. 21, 1976-77, pp. 8-10

      See also: the College Magazine vol. 56, 2011-12), pp. 60-63, 'Morshead and Kelly' by R. Luckett.

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