E. Wyndham Hulme

Edward Wyndham Hulme was a British librarian, bibliographer, and writer whose career was closely tied to the Patent Office Library in Great Britain, where he rose from clerk to librarian and served until his retirement in 1919.

He studied at Oxford, and later became known for thoughtful work on bibliography, classification, and the organization of knowledge. His best-known writings include Statistical Bibliography in Relation to the Growth of Modern Civilization, and he is often remembered as an early figure in the development of modern information and library science.

Hulme also wrote on practical library matters, including the preservation of books, and his career reflects a rare mix of scholarship and hands-on library work. Although he is not a household name today, his ideas continued to matter to later librarians, bibliographers, and historians of information.