Theodore Cressy Skeat
Theodore Cressy Skeat (15 February 1907 — 25 June 2003) was Librarian at the British Library, where he worked as Assistant Keeper (from 1931), Deputy Keeper (from 1948), and Keeper of Manuscripts and Egerton Librarian (from 1961 to 1972) after studies in Cambridge and a spell at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. His work coincided with two important acquisitions by the Trustees of the aforementioned institution, namely the Codex Sinaiticus and the apocryphal Gospel Egerton 2 Papyrus (a.k.a. the Egerton Gospel). He made a name for himself with important contributions to palaeography, papyrology, and codicology, particularly — but not only — in relation to these two acquisitions. He was the grandson of noted philologist Walter William Skeat.
My comment: ... was Librarian at the British Library, Surely he was ' ... a Librarian at the British Museum ...' retiring from there by your account in 1972 while the British Library was created out of the Library at the British Museum together with other institutions to become the 'British Library' in 1973. It is in any case critically important to ensure that the distinctions between the old British Museum incorporating at its heart and primary component the Library and its subsequent dispersions the British Museum (sans Library) and the British Library, bringing together the Library from the Museum and other institutions are kept quite separate S.W. Massil
Obituaries
- J. Keith Elliott, Theodore Cressy Skeat, TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, 2003.[1]
- J. Keith Elliott, Obituary: T. C. Skeat, The Independent, July 8, 2003.[2]
- Dorothy J. Thompson, In memoriam Theodore Cressy SKEAT, 2004.[3]
Select bibliography
- H.I. Bell, and T.C. Skeat (eds.), Fragments of an Unknown Gospel and other early Christian papyri, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1935.
- H.J.M. Milne, and T.C. Skeat, Scribes and Correctors of the Codex Sinaiticus, London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1938.
- C.H. Roberts, and T.C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex, Oxford University Press, New York – Cambridge 1983.
- T.C. Skeat, The collected Biblical writings of T.C. Skeat, ed. J.K. Elliott, Supplements to Novum Testamentum 113, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004.