Howard Millar Nixon OBE (3 September 1909 – 18 February 1983) was a British librarian and historian of bookbinding.
[1] Returning to the British Museum, Nixon was involved in setting up a microfilm unit and also developed an interest in bookbinding history, a subject upon which he published extensively.
In his obituary, The Times called him the "doyen of historians of bookbinding in Britain", with a "keen eye" for detail who had given the subject "not merely an academic distinction that it had lacked before but also a basis on which others will build with confidence".
[3] On retiring from the British Museum, Nixon became Librarian of Westminster Abbey in 1974, and held the post until his death.
Nixon was appointed Lecturer in Bibliography at the School of Library Studies at University College London in 1959, holding the post until 1976.