Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alan Noel Latimer Munby

English writer

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1913

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 26-Dec-1974

Profession: writer, essayist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Alan Noel Latimer ('Tim') Munby (1913–1974) was an English author, writer and librarian.
Born in Hampstead, Munby was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge.
He is best known for his five-volume study of the eccentric nineteenth-century book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps, and for his slim volume of ghost stories, The Alabaster Hand, which includes three tales written in Oflag VII B, a German prisoner-of-war camp near Eichstadt, during World War Two.
These stories - 'The Topley Place Sale', 'The Four Poster' and 'The White Sack' - featured in a prison-camp magazine, Touchstone, edited by Elliott Viney, which was produced on a printing press owned by the Bishop of Eichstadt, Michael Rackl.
Munby worked in the antiquarian book trade with Bernard Quaritch, Limited (1935–37) and Sotheby & Company (1937–39, 1945–47).
He became Librarian at King's College, Cambridge in 1947 and Fellow in 1948; he was J.P.R.
Lyell Reader in Bibliography, University of Oxford (1962–63) and Sandars Reader in Bibliography, University of Cambridge (1969–70).
He was elected President of the Bibliographical Society in 1974 and died during his term of office.Munby's first marriage was to Joan Margaret Edelsten; his second marriage was to Sheila Rachel Crowther-Smith.