Horace Edward Manners Fildes
Postmaster, book collector, bibliographer
About Horace Edward Manners Fildes
Lived 1875 – 1937 (aged 62). Horace Edward Manners Fildes was a New Zealand writer, bibliophile, postmaster and historian.
Horace Edward Manners Fildes (5 October 1875–7 October 1937) was a New Zealand postmaster, book collector and bibliographer. He was born in Temuka, South Canterbury, New Zealand on 5 October 1875.
Fildes bequeathed nearly 2,000 volumes to the Victoria University College Library, which provided the basis of the New Zealand research materials in the J.C. Beaglehole Room.
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postmaster, book collector, bibliographer (1875–1937)
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Horace Edward Manners Fildes was born on 5 October 1875 in Temuka.
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Horace Edward Manners Fildes died on 7 October 1937.
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Horace Edward Manners Fildes was a writer, bibliophile, postmaster and historian.
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