Background
He was born in the parish of Street Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, firstborn son of Review Doctor James Bandinel of Netherbury by his wife, Margaret (née Dumaresq).
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Bulkeley Bandinel
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Winchester College; New College.
Career
Educated at Reading under Richard Valpy and then at Winchester College, Bandinel entered New College, Oxford, in 1800 (Bachelor 1805, Master of Arts 1807, Bachelor's Degree and Doctor of Divinity 1823) and was a Fellow there until 1813. During Admiral Sir James Saumarez"s Baltic campaign of 1808, Bandinel served a short while as chaplain on board HMS Victory. But, returning, he settled in Oxford and rose within the University"s ranks.
From 1810 he was Sub-Librarian of the Bodleian Library under his godfather John Price, and rose to become Bodley"s Librarian in 1813 upon Price"s death.
lieutenant was a position he held until his own death in 1861. Bandinel was Dean of New College and Proctor of the University in 1814, and a Delegate of the University Press from 1813.
But Bandinel, occupied with administering the Bodleian and paying from his own purse for bold acquisitions of rare books and manuscripts, rarely visited his living in the North and the parish was run by a curate in his place. The Bodleian"s collections increased greatly under his direction and his knowledge of literary circles was rarely seconded.
His patience with both ill-informed library visitors and colleagues would often run thin, many a guest falling victim to his short temper, but it is said that his courtesy was guaranteed to anyone of note who wished to consult him.
Macray in his Annals of the Bodleian Library recounts that Bandinel resigned his librarianship in 1860 "after forty-seven years of office as in the capacity of Head, and a total of fifty of work in the Library. Bandinel married, in 1813, Mary Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of Culham, Oxfordshire, and died without issue in 1861 at his home, 31 Beaumont Street, Oxford.
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British