Arundell Esdaile

Arundell James Kennedy Esdaile (1880 – 22 June 1956) was a British librarian, and Secretary to the British Museum from 1926 to 1940.

Career Secretary to the British Museum from 1926 to 1940, Esdaile was also president of the Library Association, and editor of its journal, the Library Association Record.

In 1926, he delivered Cambridge University’s Sandars Lectures in Bibliography—one of the major British bibliographical lecture series—on the topic of "Elements of the bibliography of English literature, materials and methods". The lectures were published in 1928 under the title The Sources of English Literature: A Bibliographical Guide for Students.

Esdaile was appointed a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 1952; over a decade earlier, in 1939, the University of Liverpool had conferred on him an honorary doctorate.

Later life Esdaile died on 22 June 1956. The Inviolable Shade. Boyle, Son and Watchurst, 1912. Wise Men From the West and Other Poems. Andrew Dakers, 1949.