Brian Smith, former County Archivist of Gloucestershire, Secretary of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, and Chairman of the Society of Archivists, died on 3 November 2018, aged 86. He contributed significantly to the archives profession and will be much missed. Brian was born on 15 May 1932 in Leeds. At the outbreak of war he was sent to boarding school in Malvern, which led to a lifetime’s connection with ‘the Three Counties’. When just eleven, his father died in an accident, on 3 November 1943. Brian died exactly 75 years later in 2018. He gained scholarships to Bloxham School and Keble College, Oxford, where he studied history. Like many other influential archivists of his generation, he trained as an archivist at the Bodleian Library. His first professional post was at Worcestershire Record Office in 1956, followed by a twoyear stint in Essex Record Office from 1958 to 1960. He moved to Gloucestershire in 1960 as deputy to Irvine Gray and was appointed County Archivist in 1968, a post he held until 1979. Meticulous annual reports told of continuous improvement in Gloucester. He navigated the turbulent cross-currents of local government reorganisation with great skill, reporting in 1974: ‘for the first time the historic records of the city, county and diocese are in the same custody, administered, catalogued and available to the public according to a common code of archival practice.’ When an opportunity arose, he acquired a disused school and oversaw its conversion to the new county archives building, a central site which the service still occupies today. In 1979 the newspapers reported Gloucester’s biggest ever removal, with 80 tonnes of records moved to Alvin Street. In the same year he set up the records management service in Shire Hall. Former colleagues commented on his urbanity. He seemed equally at ease with record office staff or when dealing with his fellow Chief Officers in the County Council or with depositors like Lord Bathurst. For record collection jobs he used his rather elderly VW camper van and surprised colleagues by how often new depositors were people he knew socially or had met through other channels. ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 2019, VOL. 40, NO. 3, 331–333 https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440

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布莱恩·斯坦利·史密斯（1932-2018）

格洛斯特郡前县档案管理员、皇家历史手稿委员会秘书兼档案管理员协会主席布赖恩·史密斯于 2018 年 11 月 3 日去世，享年 86 岁。他为档案行业做出了重大贡献，人们将非常怀念他。布赖恩于 1932 年 5 月 15 日出生于利兹。战争爆发时，他被送到莫尔文的寄宿学校，这导致了他一生与“三县”的联系。年仅 11 岁时，他的父亲于 1943 年 11 月 3 日死于一场事故。布莱恩在整整 75 年后的 2018 年去世。他获得了牛津大学布洛克瑟姆学校和基布尔学院的奖学金，在那里他学习历史。像他那一代的许多其他有影响力的档案管理员一样，他在博德利图书馆接受了档案管理员培训。他的第一个专业职位是 1956 年在伍斯特郡唱片办公室，随后从 1958 年到 1960 年，他在埃塞克斯档案办公室工作了两年。他于 1960 年移居格洛斯特郡，担任 Irvine Gray 的副手，并于 1968 年被任命为县档案管理员，直到 1979 年为止。细致的年度报告讲述了格洛斯特的持续改进。他以高超的技巧驾驭了地方政府重组的汹涌波涛，在 1974 年报告说：“市、县和教区的历史记录第一次被统一保管、管理、编目并向公众开放。档案实践的共同守则。当机会出现时，他收购了一所废弃的学校，并监督将其改建为新的县档案大楼，这是该服务机构今天仍在使用的中心地点。1979 年，报纸报道了格洛斯特有史以来最大的一次搬迁，80 吨唱片搬到了 Alvin Street。同年，他在郡厅设立档案管理处。以前的同事评价他的城市风度。他似乎对档案办公室的工作人员或在与县议会的其他首席官员或像巴瑟斯特勋爵这样的储户打交道时同样自在。对于记录收集工作，他使用他相当老的大众露营车，并惊讶于他的同事们在社交上认识的人或通过其他渠道认识的新存款人。档案和记录 2019，卷。40，没有。3、331–333 https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440 他似乎对档案办公室的工作人员或在与县议会的其他首席官员或像巴瑟斯特勋爵这样的储户打交道时同样自在。对于记录收集工作，他使用他相当老的大众露营车，并惊讶于他在社交上认识或通过其他渠道认识的新存款人的同事。档案和记录 2019，卷。40，没有。3、331–333 https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440 他似乎对档案办公室的工作人员或在与县议会的其他首席官员或像巴瑟斯特勋爵这样的储户打交道时同样自在。对于记录收集工作，他使用他相当老的大众露营车，并惊讶于他在社交上认识或通过其他渠道认识的新存款人的同事。档案和记录 2019，卷。40，没有。3、331–333 https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2019.1664440