(b Goodnestone, Kent, Aug 1, 1862; d Eton, Berks, June 12, 1936). English scholar, and art historian, and author. He was educated at Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, and was Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum (1893–1908), Provost of King’s College (1905–17), Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University (1913–15), and Provost of Eton College (1918–36). His prodigiously extensive work was in three main areas: the study of apocryphal biblical writings, cataloguing of medieval manuscripts, and the study of iconography in all forms of art. In the field of apocryphal writings his work was mainly on those of the New Testament, on which he published a collection of texts in English translation, The Apocryphal New Testament (Cambridge, 1924). His cataloguing of the medieval manuscript collections of Eton College Library (Berks), the Fitzwilliam Museum, and colleges of Cambridge, Westminster Abbey and Lambeth Palace, London, John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and the University of Aberdeen Library has given him a lasting reputation. His strong interest in iconography ensured that in his catalogues that aspect of the manuscripts was always accurately described. He published studies of the iconography of Apocalypses, Bestiaries, the Saints’ Lives, the narrative cycles of the Old and New Testaments, and of apocryphal texts. He was mainly interested in English material, and he published many facsimiles of English illuminated manuscripts with exhaustive commentaries. Although his catalogues, by modern standards, have some limitations, the body of his published work laid the foundations for the subsequent study of English manuscript painting and medieval iconography....