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James Laver
James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959. He was also an important and pioneering fashion historian described as "the man in England who made the study of costume respectable".〔Gibbs-Smith, Charles, Obituary in ''Costume (Journal of the Costume Society)'' no 10 (1976)〕
==Early life==
James Laver was born in Liverpool, England, on 14 March 1899, the second child and only son of Arthur James Laver, a maritime printer and stationer, and his wife, Florence Mary (née Barker), strict Congregationalists who brought up their children in a puritanical manner.〔〔(Profile of James Laver by Doris Langley Moore, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 ); accessed 10 February 2009.〕 He attended the Liverpool Institute. His academic progress was put on hold by the First World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant.
In 1919 he resumed his residency at New College, Oxford, where he earned a BA degree second class in modern history 1921. The next year, he earned a B.Litt in theology for a thesis on John Wesley. His college fees and travel expenses were subsidised by a wealthy shipping magnate, Lawrence Holt.〔 At Oxford, he contributed to the student magazine ''Isis'' and won the 1921 Newdigate Prize for his poem on ''Cervantes''.〔
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