After serving tho British Museum for over seventy years Mr Gregory W. Eccles, tho senior surviving member of the staff, has passed away at the age of ninety-three. Mr Eccles started work as long ago as 1857, and his years of patience in cataloguing thousands of books have helped to make tho British Museum Library one of the best organised libraries in tho world. “ Were you tho only sober man there?” “ Certainly not!”- “Then who was?’ 1
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Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 10
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