George Parker Winship, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Parker Winship

American librarian

Date of Birth: 29-Jul-1871

Date of Death: 22-Jun-1952

Profession: librarian, historian, bibliographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About George Parker Winship

  • George Parker Winship, A.
  • M.
  • (29 July 1871 – 22 June 1952) was an American librarian and author, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.
  • He graduated from Harvard in 1893. He was librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R.I.
  • from 1895 to 1915.
  • Subsequently, he took charge of the collection of rare books made by Harry Elkins Widener and housed in the new Widener Memorial Library at Harvard.
  • Winship was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899.Winship was a scholar as well as a librarian.
  • He edited a number of historical works and published: The Coronado Expedition (1896); John Cabot (1898); Geoffrey Chaucer, (1900); Cabot Bibliography (1900); William Caxton (1909); Printing in South America (1912); and The John Carter Brown Library (1914). His father was the American educator Albert Edward Winship.

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