Henry Bradshaw: Irish pamphlets

Henry Bradshaw (1831-1886) was born in London on 2 February 1831. He attended Eton, before entering King's College, Cambridge, in 1850 (B.A, 1854; M.A., 1857), where he was a Fellow, 1853-1856, and Dean, 1857-1858 and 1863-1865. In 1856 he became Assistant Master at St Columba's College, near Dublin. Thereafter, he joined Cambridge University Library, where he was Assistant, 1856-1858, and Superintendent of Manuscripts, 1859-1867. He carried out the reform of the Department of Manuscripts, and served as University Librarian, 1867-1886. Bradshaw died on 11 February 1886.

List of Clement S. Palmer's Irish pamphlets now in Cambridge Universaity Library.

Entries arranged by size, in chronological order.

Inside front cover: 'The books in this list which were still tied up in hundreds in October 1905 have been marked with a tick: the rest seem to have been incorporated in the collection by Bradshaw.'

Bequeathed to the Library by Henry Bradshaw, Librarian, 1886.

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Henry Bradshaw: Irish pamphlets, MS Add.2672