Moses TYSON

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Occupation: lived with aunts.

from Wikipedia: (c) Wikipedia Moses Tyson (born 1897, Westmorland; died 1969), historian and librarian, was keeper of western manuscripts at the John Rylands Library 1927-1935 and from 1935 to 1965 librarian of the Manchester University Library. His successor Frederick William Ratcliffe described him as "one of the great unsung figures of the University"; according to Brian Pullan, historian of the University, Dr Tyson was "a painfully shy bachelor who shunned the company of women" and "the self-effacing, misogynistic, chain-smoking Librarian".[1] His friends included Sir William Watson the poet and H. B. Charlton, Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. Works

1930 : Hand-List of the Collections of French and Italian Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library. Manchester: Manchester University Press (first published in Bulletin, vol. 14, pp. 563–609) 1932 : (with Henry Guppy) The French Journals of Mrs Thrale and Doctor Johnson edited from the original manuscripts in the John Rylands Library and in the British Museum. Manchester: Manchester University Press (Rylands English MSS. 617; BM Add. MSS. 35299) 1937 : The Manchester University Library. Manchester: University Press 1941 : "The First Forty Years of the John Rylands Library" in: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library; vol. 25, pp. 46–66 Other contributions to the Bulletin were: "Hand-list of charters, deeds and similar documents, vol. II" (vols. 17, pp. 130–77, 348–82; 18, 393–454); "Hand-list of the collection of English manuscripts, 1928" (vol. 13, pp. 152–219); additions, 1928–35 (vol. 19, pp. 230–54, 458–85); "Hand-list of additions to the collections of Latin manuscripts, 1908–28" (vol. 12, pp. 581–609); "The Spanish manuscripts" (vol. 16, pp. 188–99); "Unpublished manuscripts, papers and letters of Dr Johnson, Mrs Thrale, and their friends [Eng. MSS. 530-660]" (vol. 15, 467–88); "A review and other writings by Charles Dickens [Eng. MS. 725]" (edited by Tyson; vol. 18, 177–96).

Footnotes

Pullan, Brian & Abendstern, Michele (2000) A History of the University of Manchester, 1951–73 ISBN 0-7190-5670-5; pp. 18, 92 Extracts

External links

The papers of Moses Tyson in the John Rylands University Library (c)

Dr Moses Tyson (1897–1969) was Keeper of Western Manuscripts at The John Rylands Library from 1927 to 1935, then Librarian of Manchester University, 1935–65, and subsequently Librarian Emeritus.

Under Tyson’s leadership The University of Manchester Library grew into one of the largest university libraries in the provinces.

From 1928 he was also lecturer (and from 1956 until his retirement reader) in palaeography in The University of Manchester.

This small collection contains material relating to Tyson’s career as librarian and historian, as well as personal correspondence and a number of documents and photographs concerning his family and his military service during the First World War.