Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle (1867–1962)

English scholar and writer. He was a literary executor of William Morris, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, and Thomas Hardy, and wrote various bibliographical monographs, especially on illuminated manuscripts.

Cockerell was born in Brighton. From 1889 to 1892 he was a coal merchant and then became secretary to the designer and writer William Morris and the Kelmscott Press 1892–98. He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum 1908–37, and fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, 1910–16 and of Downing College 1932–37.