Name George Winship Role Author | Parents Albert Edward Winship Education Harvard University | |
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Died 1952, Dover, Massachusetts, United States Books The John Carter Brown Li, Cabot bibliography, Gutenberg to Plantin an Outlin, Daniel Berkeley Updike a, The Cambridge press - 16 | ||
George Parker Winship, A. M. (29 July 1871 – 22 June 1952) was an American librarian and author, born at Bridgewater, Mass. He was educated at Harvard where he graduated in 1893.
He was librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R.I. from 1895 to 1915. Subsequently, he took charge of the collection of rare books made by Harry Elkins Widener and housed in the new Widener Memorial Library at Harvard, the largest important university library in the United States. Winship was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899.
Mr. Winship was a scholar as well as a librarian. He edited a number of historical works and published: The Coronado Expedition (1896); John Cabot (1898); Geoffrey Chaucer, (1900); Cabot Bibliography (1900); William Caxton (1909); Printing in South America (1912); and The John Carter Brown Library (1914).
His father was the American educator Albert Edward Winship.