Compiled by Phillipps , James Orchard Halliwell- , 1820-1889 , Archivist, antiquary, Shakespearean scholar

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Compiled by Phillipps , James Orchard Halliwell- , 1820-1889 , Archivist, antiquary, Shakespearean scholar

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        James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889) was a scholar and librarian of Jesus College, Cambridge University. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1839, and acted as an editor for the Camden Society, 1839-1844, the Percy Society, 1842-1850, and the Shakespeare Society. A renowned Shakespeare scholar, he arranged and described the Shakespeare archives at Stratford-upon-Avon, wrote extensively on the town, and initiated the movement for the purchase of the site of Shakespeare's house at New Place, [1863]. A list of his publications may be found in the British Library catalogue.

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