| 词条 | Roger Morgan (librarian) |
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Early life and educationMorgan was born in Chelsea, London, the son of novelists Charles Langbridge Morgan and Hilda Vaughan. His paternal grandfather was engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. He was the younger brother of Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey (1924–2017).[3] He and his sister grew up in Notting Hill[4] until the Second World War, when, fearing a Nazi invasion after the Dunkirk, they moved with their mother to America.[1] He spent two years at Phillips Academy in Andover, before returning home in 1942 to finish his schooling at Eton.[2] From 1944–47, Morgan was a member of the Grenadier Guards, rising to the rank of captain and serving in postwar Germany.[3] He read history at Brasenose College, Oxford, earning an MA.[3] CareerAfter leaving Oxford, Morgan worked as a photographer for society magazine Tatler while studying for the bar exam.[2] In 1951, he began what he thought was a temporary job working in the House of Commons Library, Palace of Westminster. He spent 12 years there before moving to the House of Lords Library, which was badly in need of updating. He took over as head librarian following a report by a working group, led by David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles, that recommended creating a research service, hiring qualified librarians for the first time, acquiring updated books, and "dipping a toe in information technology."[1][2] Between 1977 and his retirement, Morgan transformed the Lords library at a time when the composition of the House of Lords was evolving. He oversaw its modernisation "from a parliamentary backwater" and "gentleman"s reading library" into a "hi-tech source of information for the increasing number of expert, working life peers."[1][2] Morgan recruited a research staff and began the massive project of transferring the library's index of some 120,000 books from cars to microfiche. He continued to improve the library as technology advanced. In 1978, the library was equipped with its first two computer terminals and a Prestel machine. When he retired in 1991, the library's entire catalogue was online and had started subscribing to online databases.[1][2] Morgan was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1991 New Year Honours.[5] Personal lifeFrom 1951–65, Morgan was married to Catherine Harriet Waterfield, with whom he had a son and daughter, James and Lucie, and two sons, Luke and Piers, who predeceased him.[1] He married secondly American Susan Vogel Marrian in 1965,[6] and had another son, Tobias.[2] He suffered three strokes before dying in 2018, aged 91.[1] See also
References{{Portal|Libraries}}1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news |title=Roger Morgan obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/roger-morgan-obituary-zpdnktnpq |accessdate=15 February 2019 |work=The Times |date=24 August 2018 |language=en}} {{s-start}}{{s-gov}}{{Succession box2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news |title=Roger Morgan, House of Lords librarian – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/09/07/roger-morgan-house-lords-librarian-obituary/ |accessdate=15 February 2019 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=7 September 2018}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite journal |title=Morgan, Roger Hugh Vaughan Charles, (8 July 1926–10 June 2018), Librarian, House of Lords, 1977–91 |journal=Who Was Who |date=December 2007 |subscription=yes |doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28089 |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U28089 |accessdate=15 February 2019 |language=en}} 4. ^{{cite news |title=The Dowager Marchioness of Anglesey |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-dowager-marchioness-of-anglesey-grbnvldz8 |accessdate=15 February 2019 |work=The Times |date=31 January 2017 |language=en}} 5. ^{{London Gazette |issue=52382 |date=28 December 1990 | page= 8|supp=y}} 6. ^England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005 |title=House of Lords Librarian |before= Christopher Dobson |after=David Lewis Jones |years= 1977–1991}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control|VIAF=168083970}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Morgan, Roger Hugh Vaughan Charles}} 7 : 1926 births|2018 deaths|Commanders of the Order of the British Empire|People from Chelsea, London|English librarians|Phillips Academy alumni|Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford |
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