Sydney Cockerell
Sydney Cockerell (1867 - 1962) was one of the Directors of the Musée Fitzwilliam with Cambridge.
Biography
It was employed first of all by William Morris to catalog his books and manuscripts and what leads it to a post of secretary to the Kelmscott Close. After the death of Morris, it shares his time as secretary of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt and like advising Henry Yates Thompson. In 1900 it joined Emery Walker like partner in his company of engraving, and they conceive together the type Subiaco for St John Hornby' S Ashendene Press. He was a friend close to Katharine Adams (1862 - 1952), and once confessed: " I would have married well with it, but it had five years more than me, and with time to decide to me with the marriage, we could not have had famille". Instead of that, he married with Florence in 1907, (Kate) Kingsford, the calligrapher and illuminator of Ashendene Close for " the Song of Solomon ". That encourages it to find a work " stable" , and in 1908 it succeeds Mr. R. James as Directeur of the Musée Fitzwilliam with Cambridge. " I have it trouvé" , you it has says, " I changed it into a palais". " During the twenty-nine years when it remained with Cambridge it transformed a rather dull and sick provincial gallery in a whole with a level of excellence able to influence museums in the world entier".
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