Frederick William Ratcliffe CBE (born 28 May 1927) is an English philologist and librarian.
[1][2] He has a Ph.D. in German, given for his thesis on Heinrich von Mügeln at the University of Manchester.
From 1954 he was an assistant librarian or sublibrarian in the universities of Manchester, Glasgow, and Newcastle upon Tyne.
[3] Ratcliffe has written a number of papers on the subject of librarianship including the preservation of library materials.
In 1988-1989 he held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge speaking on "A pre-Lutheran German psalter: A case study of the fourteenth-century translation of Heinrich von Mügeln.