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Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952

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Personal name headingMilford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952
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Variant(s)Milford, H. S. (Humphrey Sumner), Sir, 1877-1952
Milford, Humphrey, 1877-1952
Birth date1877
Death date1952
Place of birthEast Knoyle (England)
Place of deathOxford (England)
Field of activityPublishers and publishing
AffiliationOxford University Press
Found inCowper poetry & prose, 1921.
Some account of the Oxford University Press, 1922: t.p. verso (Humphrey Milford, Publisher to the University)
VIAF, accessed February 5, 2019: 18055235 (hdg.: Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir; Milford, Humphrey, Milford, H.S. (Humphrey Sumner))
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, viewed online February 5, 2019: Milford, Sir Humphrey Sumner, 1877-1952 (born at East Knoyle, Wiltshire, on 8 February 1877 ... in 1900 he became assistant to ... secretary to the delegates of the Oxford University Press ... transferred to the London office in 1906 ... succeeding Henry Frowde as manager of the London business and publisher to the University of Oxford in 1913, Milford held the post until his retirement in 1945 ... died in Oxford on 6 September 1952)
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