Howard Colvin

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When part of Colvin's library of architectural history was bequeathed to the Paul Mellon Centre library it arrived with papers that were either associated with or inserted into his books. He used his books as a way of filing additional information about the subject matter of each publication. The papers include correspondence, letters, postcards, copies of articles, unpublished papers (by Colvin and others), notes and sketches, photographs and press cuttings mainly relating to church and country house architecture. The archive also includes copies of the Dictionary of British Architects interleaved and heavily annotated by Colvin.

The Centre also holds material from Colvin's library.

Sir Howard Montagu Colvin (1919-2007) was an architectural historian and lecturer at Oxford University, best known for his 'Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1660-1840' (1954 & subsequent editions).