S. C. (Sydney Castle) Roberts

Born in Birkenhead in 1887, Sydney Castle Roberts was educated at Brighton College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He became closely associated with Cambridge for the rest of his life and built a reputation as both a man of letters and a gifted academic administrator.

Roberts is especially remembered for his long connection with Cambridge University Press, where he served as Secretary, and for later becoming Master of Pembroke College. He also served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, reflecting the high regard in which he was held in university life.

Alongside his administrative work, he wrote widely on literature and literary figures, and he is still noted for books such as A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521–1921. He died in 1966, leaving behind the picture of a writer deeply at home in the world of books, publishing, and scholarship.