Henry Thomas (bibliographer)

Sir Henry Thomas, FBA (21 November 1878 – 21 July 1952) was an English bibliographer and Hispanic scholar. A graduate of the University of Birmingham, he worked at the British Museum from 1903 to 1947, where he was successively Deputy Keeper (1924–43), Keeper (1943–45) and Principal Keeper (1946–47) of Printed Books. He delivered the Norman MacColl lectures at the University of Cambridge (1917) and the Taylorian Lecture at the University of Oxford (1922), was president of the Anglo-Spanish Society (1931 to 1947) and the Bibliographical Society (1936 to 1938), was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1936, and knighted in 1946; he received DLitt degrees from the University of Birmingham and the University of London.