William Dunn Macray
English librarian, cleric and historian
About William Dunn Macray
Lived 1826 – 1916 (aged 90). William Dunn Macray was a British librarian, historian, theologian and clergy.
William Dunn Macray (1826–1916) was an English librarian, cleric and historian.
Macray was ordained and graduated MA. He was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and worked at the Bodleian Library from 1845 to 1905. He received the degree Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) honoris causa from the University of Oxford in June 1902.
He is best known for his Annals of the Bodleian Library (1868), an institutional history of the library; a second edition was published in 1890.
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English librarian, cleric and historian (1826–1916)
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William Dunn Macray was born on 7 July 1826 in St Pancras.
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William Dunn Macray died on 5 December 1916 in Bloxham.
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William Dunn Macray was a librarian, historian, theologian and clergy.
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William Dunn Macray was British.
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