George Parker Winship, A. M. (29 July 1871 – 22 June 1952) was an American librarian and author, born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard in 1893.
He was librarian of the John Carter Brown Library at Providence, R.I. from 1895 to 1915. Subsequently, he took charge of the collection of rare books made by Harry Elkins Widener and housed in the new Widener Memorial Library at Harvard. Winship was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1899.[1]
Winship was a scholar as well as a librarian. He edited a number of historical works and published: The Coronado Expedition (1896); John Cabot (1898); Geoffrey Chaucer, (1900); Cabot Bibliography (1900); William Caxton (1909); Printing in South America (1912); and The John Carter Brown Library (1914).
A cat supposedly dropped a book from the book shelf that was closing off the entrance to the annex and the door opened- a Nazi was standing outside and heard it, and soon he took them away
