Bannister, Henry Marriott, 1854-1919

Henry Marriott Bannister was born on March 18, 1854, in London, England.

He was an English music editor and bibliographer who studied theology and was ordained as a priest in 1878. He published valuable editions of "Monumenti Vaticani di Paleografia Musicale Latina" (Leipzig, 1913), a catalogue of the music manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which included 141 plates. He co-edited volumes 47, 49, 53, and 54 of "Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi" (1886–1922) and published some manuscripts of the Abbey of Coupar-Angus in Scotland, along with a brief description (Rome, 1910). For many years, he served as the librarian of the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.

He died on February 16, 1919, in Oxford, England.