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John Henry Pyle Pafford (6 March 1900 – 11 March 1996) was born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire; retired to Bridport in 1971, and died at Dorchester. Librarian of the University of London Library from 1945 to 1967; and – as Major J H Pafford, the Wiltshire Regiment ‒ joint Instigator and team Leader of The Army Standard Unit Library Project of the AEC, later the Royal Army Educational Corps, from 1942 to 1945. He acted as an editor of ''The Year's Work in Librarianship'' from 1939–1950. He worked as an editor of literary texts, including the Arden edition of William Shakespeare's ''The Winter's Tale''. ==Librarian and Soldier== Sources for the following account are: (Obituary ): 'John Pafford' by George Kane, Independent 26 March 1996;〔Kane, George. "John Pafford", ''The Independent'', 26 March 1996.〕 Pafford: Books and Army Education, 1944–1946: Preparation and supply, by J. H. P. Pafford, London 1946;〔J. H. P., Pafford. "Books and Army Education, 1944–1946: Preparation and supply", London, 1946.〕 Milne: Prefatory memoir by A. T. Milne, 'Dr J H P Pafford' in Librarianship and Literature: Essays in honour of Jack Pafford, ‘Jack’ Pafford ‒ ‘a leading international figure in the advancement of library science’() ‒ had a distinguished middle age and later life. In 1993, at the age of 93, he completed his last book, John Clavell, 1601–43: highwayman, author, lawyer, doctor . He was Goldsmiths' Librarian, University of London for 27 years, having begun as pupil-teacher at Trowbridge Elementary School. Accepted at the age of eighteen into the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps, he gained a commission in the Wiltshire Regiment and a silver medal for boxing. He was also an excellent shot. He did not see active service in the World War of 1914–1918 ‒ was demobilised five months after the armistice on his nineteenth birthday. An ex-service grant enabled him to enter University College London. After voluntary teaching at the Working Men's College in Camden, he went on to take a London MA under R. W. Chambers, editing seventeenth-century texts. In the Inter-War Years Pafford proved himself to be an enthusiastic European: his ''Library Cooperation in Europe'', 1935, continuing to be a valued work of reference (according to George Kane, in 1996). He played a major part in evacuating the National Central Library from London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Henry Pyle Pafford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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