David Rogers (librarian)

David McGregor Rogers (1917–1995) was a British librarian and bibliographer who was Head of Special Collections at the Bodleian Library from 1978 until his retirement in 1984.

Rogers was born in India on 29 May 1917, the son of an officer in the Indian Army, and spent his early childhood there.

After serving in India and Burma during the Second World War, he returned to Oxford University and completed a doctorate with a thesis on clandestine Catholic printing in England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

[1] Rogers began working at the Bodleian while still a graduate student, and remained there throughout his professional life, retiring in 1984.

[1] He was instrumental in reviving the Catholic Record Society after the Second World War, together with Antony Allison of the British Library and Thomas Birrell of Nijmegen University.