John William Jolliffe (15 July 1929 – 30 March 1985) was a British librarian and academic who was Bodley's Librarian (head of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford) from 1982 until his death.

Jolliffe was educated at Hastings Grammar School before studying French at University College London.

[1][2] His publications included various articles on his specialist area of 16th-century French literature.

[1] On his death, his colleague Julian Roberts became Acting Librarian at the Bodleian.

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