12 Facts About Sydney Cockerell

Sydney Carlyle Cockerell was an English museum curator and collector.

From 1891, Sydney Cockerell gained a more solid entry to intellectual circles, working for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.

Sydney Cockerell acted as private secretary to William Morris, becoming a major collector of Kelmscott Press books; was secretary to Wilfrid Scawen Blunt; and was Thomas Hardy's executor.

From 1908 to 1937 Sydney Cockerell was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge.

Sydney Cockerell built up the Museum's collections of private-press books and manuscripts, prints, drawings, paintings, ceramics and antiquities.

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Sydney Cockerell raised funds for building extensions, set up the first 'Friends' scheme in Britain and introduced Sunday opening.

Sydney Cockerell appears as one of a circle of three figures in the book by Dame Felicitas Corrigan, The Nun, the Infidel, and the Superman, with Dame Laurentia McLachlan and George Bernard Shaw.

Sydney Cockerell calculated that during his lifetime he had made a quarter of a million pounds for the Fitzwilliam, and about a dozen enemies.

Sydney Cockerell was a leading figure in the revival of italic handwriting as an artistic craft.

Sydney Cockerell was the son of Sydney John Cockerell and Alice Elizabeth Bennett, daughter of Sir John Bennett.

The bee expert Theodore Dru Alison Sydney Cockerell, who settled in the United States, was his brother, as was the bookbinder Douglas Bennett Sydney Cockerell.

Sydney Cockerell was married to the illuminator and designer Florence Kate Kingsford, who in 1916 was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.