Education
Richard Fifoot was educated at Berkhamsted School and the University of Oxford.
Richard Fifoot was educated at Berkhamsted School and the University of Oxford.
He worked at the library of the University of Leeds from 1950 to 1958 (initially as Assistant Librarian, then as Sub-Librarian from 1952), becoming Deputy Librarian of the University of Nottingham in 1958 and Librarian of the University of Edinburgh in 1960. He was appointed Bodley"s Librarian in 1979 and also held a Professorial Fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford. He retired in 1981. He founded Three Rivers Books Limited, and was a director from 1981 to 1990.
His writings included A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1963, 1971).
He was chairman of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries from 1979 to 1981, as well as a member of the Executive Board of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions from 1979 to 1983.