Simon Nowell-Smith
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Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith (January 5, 1909 - March 28, 1996) was a British writer, collector and librarian.[1]
Nowell-Smith graduated from Sherborne School in 1928 where he edited The Shirburnian and New College, University of Oxford in 1932.[2]
Career
He served on the editorial staff of The Times from 1932 to 1944 and was assistant editor, Times Literary Supplement, 1937 to 1939.
During World War II Nowell-Smith served in the Naval Intelligence Unit.[3]
He was Secretary and Librarian at the London Library from 1950 to 1956 and Secretary of the Hospital Library Services Survey 1958–1959.
He was President of the Bibliographical Society 1962–1964.[4]
In 1965–1966 he was the Lyell Lecturer in Bibliography at the University of Oxford where he spoke on "International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria."[5]
He was a trustee of Dove Cottage from 1974 to 1982.
