Sir Sydney Cockerell
(1867-1962), Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and book collectorSitter in 14 portraits
Began his career in the coal business. His friendships with John Ruskin and William Morris led to work that he found more conducive: Morris offered him the task of cataloguing his library of manuscripts and early printed books and in 1894, he also became Secretary to Morris's Kelmscott Press. After Morris's death, Cockerell acted as his literary executor, a task he was to carry out for many other literary friends. In 1908, Cockerell was appointed director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, a post he held for twenty-nine years. He rearranged and added to both the collections and the buildings of the museum. Cockerell was also a prolific and scholarly collector of medieval manuscripts.
by Dorothy Hawksley
pencil, 1952
NPG 4325
by Dorothy Hawksley
watercolour, 1960
NPG 4324
Thomas Matthews ('T.M.') Rooke; Sir Sydney Cockerell
by Unknown photographer
vintage print, March 1891
NPG x3737
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print, 1917
NPG x31042
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1917
NPG x31041
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1917
NPG x32103
by Walter Stoneman
negative, 1917
NPG x32639
by Dorothy Hawksley
bromide print, circa 1930
NPG x136177
by Lafayette
half-plate film negative, 1 November 1933
NPG x48552
by Lafayette
half-plate nitrate negative, 1 November 1933
NPG x70134
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 5 January 1934
NPG x26668
by Bassano Ltd
half-plate glass negative, 5 January 1934
NPG x26670
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