Bell Patricia:
Patricia Bell was Bedfordshire County Archivist 1968-1986 and also General Editor for BHRS. She both edited and contributed to many BHRS volumes.Buck Anne:
Anne Buck OBE (1910-2005) was a fashion historian and museum curator, first at Luton museum (1938-1947) and later at the Platt Hall, Manchester (1947-1972) where she was keeper of the Gallery of English Costume.Cirket Alan F.:
Alan Cirket was a member of staff in Bedfordshire County Record Office from 1936 to 1983, except for war service. He was also honorary curator of the Bunyan Museum, Bedford.Dony John:
Dr John Dony MBE (1899-1991) has been described as ‘one of the country’s best known field botanists’. He was a history teacher at Luton Grammar School, a local historian, botanist and honorary keeper of botany at Luton Museum (1935-1988). He was the author of many books and articles including a book on the straw hat industry (based on his PhD thesis) and two standard works on the Flora of Bedfordshire (1953) and the Flora of Hertfordshire (1967).Dyer James:
James Dyer FSA (1934-2013) was a teacher, archaeologist, local historian, excavator and educationalist of huge importance in his native Luton and beyond. He was a member of BHRS, a founder member of the Bedfordshire Archaeological Council and a member of other local and national archaeological societies. As well as writing many books on local history and archaeology, he was editor of the Bedfordshire Archaeological Journal, editor of the Bedfordshire Magazine (1965-1974) and archaeology editor for Shire Publications from 1974 (opens in a new window).Kuhlicke F. W.:
Frederick William Kuhlicke, FSA (1893-1979) was senior modern languages master at Bedford Modern School, and an authority on Bedfordshire history, archaeology, heraldry and monumental brasses. He became honorary curator of the Bedford Modern School Museum in 1933 and was instrumental in arranging its merger with Bedford Borough’s collections in 1962 to found the Bedford Museum (now merged with the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery to form The Higgins (opens in new window)). He was its first director and the author of a guide to the Museum. He was committed to the promotion of archaeology in Bedfordshire through the Bedfordshire Archaeological Council and his own work and writings. He wrote extensively about material finds in Bedfordshire, heraldry and, with F G Emmison, several editions of the Historical Association’s English local history handlisOwen Dorothy:
Dorothy Owen MBE (nee Williamson) (1920-2002) was a medieval historian and archivist. She published extensively on medieval church and administrative history and produced editions of manuscripts. She worked in Lincolnshire Archives, Lambeth Palace archives, was Curator of Ecclesiastical Archives and then Keeper of the University Archives at Cambridge, where she also taught palaeography and diplomatic. She was Editor and later President of Lincoln Record Society, and Chairman of the British Records Association.Tibbutt H. G.:
Gordon Tibbutt FSA, FRHistS (1913-1982) was an historian of nonconformity in Bedfordshire and wrote histories of many of its dissenting churches.Varley Joan:
Joan Varley FSA (1904-2002) amalgamated the records from several Lincolnshire councils and the Diocesan Record Office to form Lincolnshire Record Office and was the first county archivist (1948-1971). Later she worked with Kathleen Major to produce several volumes of the Survey of Lincoln.
