Henry Richard Tedder

Henry Richard Tedder (25 June 1850 – 1 August 1924) was an English librarian.

[1] From 1873 to 1874 he was librarian to John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton, cataloguing his private collection of books.

In 1874 he became assistant to Spencer Hall, librarian of the Athenaeum Club, London, of which Lord Acton was a member.

Hall died in 1875 and Tedder became librarian, remaining in the post until retirement in 1914.

An obituarist in The Times wrote that he "for over 50 years had been identified with libraries, and with the efforts that have been so constantly made since about the year 1877 to reduce the rules of the classification and arrangement of books to something like a science, and to improve the professional position of librarians.