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Corder retired in the 1940s, donating his volumes of research to Sunderland’s Central Library.He left Sunderland some years later, moving to Over Stowey in Somerset.He died in Over Stowey in a nursing home in 1953, at the age of 85.
A library catalog (or library catalogue in British English) is a register of all bibliographic items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations. A catalog for a group of libraries is also called a union catalog .
A catalogue of Lumley's library of some 3,000 volumes was prepared by Anthony Alcock (a member of the household of Lumley's protégé Anthony Watson) in 1596. [4] Another inventory of the pictures at Lumley Castle, and a revised catalogue of the library, were drawn up following Lumley's death in April 1609.
Copac (originally an acronym of Consortium of Online Public Access Catalogues) was a union catalogue which provided free access to the merged online catalogues of many major research libraries and specialist libraries in the United Kingdom and Ireland, plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales. [1]
Hutton was born 26 July 1797 in Sunderland, the son of a colliery viewer, [1] but was settled in Newcastle-on-Tyne by 1827. [2] He was an agent of the Norwich Fire Insurance Company. He soon acquired a reputation as a practical geologist, an authority upon the coal measures, and an ardent collector of coal-fossils.
Source: British Library Integrated Catalogue: Risings, Petersfield: Enitharmon, 1988 ISBN 1-870612-00-0); The Red-Funnelled Boat, London: Picador, 1998 ISBN 0-330-36914-8)
The Elephant Tea Rooms is a Grade II listed building in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. [1] The building was constructed from 1872 to 1877 by Henry Hopper to a design by architect Frank Caws for William Grimshaw, a local tea merchant and grocer, [2] in a blend of the high Victorian Hindu Gothic and Venetian Gothic styles. This was a selling ...
He built a library in Piccadilly for Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland and advised Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield on the restoration of Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire. He was appointed Surveyor-General of Woods in 1701 and 1714.