ABSTRACT

It was Norman Baynes, who followed so much in Bury's footsteps, who produced the standard memoir of his predecessor.1 Bury was only some sixteen years older than Baynes himself-they were born in 1861 and 1877 respectively-but he died in 1927 at the relatively early age of sixty-five, whereas Baynes lived on until1961; there are still people who knew and remember him.2 Joan Hussey has written of the difference

1 Norman H. Baynes, A Bibliography of the Works of f. B. Bury, compiled with a memoir (Cambridge, 1929).