Sidney Colvin
1845–1927
Curator and editor. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1867; fellow of Trinity College, 1868. Slade Professor of fine art, 1873–85. Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1876–84. Keeper of the prints and drawings, British Museum, 1884–1912. Edited the Works and Letters of his friend Robert Louis Stevenson, and the Letters of John Keats. Author of A life of Keats. Knighted, 1912.
Sources
Alum. Cantab.
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Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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