Honorary Members

Janet Backhouse (-)
Honorary Member
Curator of Manuscripts, British Library

Anne Blessley (-)
Details not available at present.

Sydney (Sandy) Cockerell (1906-1987)
Honorary Member
Distinguished bookbinder. Re-bound the Codex Siniaticus for the British Museum.

Christopher de Hamel (-)
Responsible for Western Manuscripts at Sotheby's"

Albina de la Mare (1932-2001)
Professor of Palaeography King's College, London from 1989. Obituary The Scribe No. 76

John D E Enderby (-)
Details not available at present.

P W Filby (-2006)
Details not available at present.

Philip Hofer (-)
Curator at the Harvard Library.

J P Hudson (-)
Details not available at present.

G K Jacklin (-)
Membership Secretary for many years

Dorothy Eugenia Miner (-1973)
Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland (USA) from 1934 to 1973.As an Honorary Member, Miss Miner gave a Lecture entitled "The Development of Medieval Illumination as related to the Evolution of Book Design" at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in conjunction with the Exhibition "The Decorated Page".(from an obituary presumed published in 1973).

Clifford Sadler (-)
Courses Secretary for many years

Dr Christian Scheffler (-)
Director of the Klingspor Museum.

Rowan Watson (-)
Hon Member. Senior Curator, National Art Library, Word & Image Department, Victoria & Albert Museum

Joyce Whalley (-)
Curator of Manuscripts at the Victoria and Albert Museum (?)

Berthold Wolpe (1905-1989)
Typeface designer, designer of books, illustrator and teacher. Initiated the lettering course at City and Guilds of London Art School.

Hermann Zapf (1918-)
Hermann Zapf, born in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1918 and now living in Darmstadt, taught himself calligraphy from the books of Rudolf Koch and Edward Johnston. He has had a distinguished career in type design and typography which stretches over fifty years. His Zapfino typeface, originally released in 1998, was an amazing success that has since worked its way into designs produced all around the world. Hermann Zapf