David Vaisey

David George Vaisey, CBE (15 March 1935 – 8 January 2025) was a British librarian who was Bodley's Librarian (head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) from 1986 until 1996.

Biography Vaisey was educated at Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire and at Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern History, graduating in 1959, followed by qualification as an archivist at the Bodleian Library in 1960. and transferred to the Territorial Army on 21 September 1956, and was promoted to acting lieutenant on 28 December 1956. His Who's Who entry states also he served with the King's African Rifles. Between 1995 and 2000, he was Keeper of the Archives of the university. ), and President of the Society of Archivists from 1999 to 2002. He was made an Honorary Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford in 1996, and was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Historical Society. A historian with a particular interest in the use of local source materials, his publications include Staffordshire and The Great Rebellion (1964, jointly), Victorian and Edwardian Oxford from old photographs (1971, jointly), The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754–65 (1984) and various journal articles. Vaisey died on 8 January 2025, at the age of 89.