So are, this is a failure. Lots of little pieces, but no real biographical information. Not even what the initials stand for, leave alone birth or death dates.
In my mother's memoirs, she writes that she worked for the:
but not searchable or viewable online.]
In my mother's memoirs, she writes that she worked for the:
British Cotton Industry Research Association (Shirley Institute) as an Information Officer, doing mainly abstracts from the current literature for our own publication and they were also reprinted in The Journal of the Textile Institute. ... It was a job I really liked; my boss was Dr.Withers, an elderly man, a real teddy bear, his glasses halfway down his nose. ... We were what was known as “Scientific Civil Service”, i.e., we had the best of two worlds: the privileges of the Civil Service (good pension plan etc.) and of Academia (very generous leave time!). ... The Institute also encouraged further education: if you took courses that were approved, you could leave two hours before school started (all evening courses). At first I took just statistics and economics, but then they approved my finishing the degree course, that’s how I ended up with a BA in Public Administration (University of Manchester). In my reference the Director (Dr. Toy) wrote that I “contributed greatly to the textile information of this country”.She mentioned Dr. Toy again recently as the director of the Shirley Institute, so I decided some wandering was necessary to see who he was. Known as "F.C. Toy," it quickly became apparent that between "toy" (as in kids toys) and "F.C." (Football Club), searching was going to be a problem! My initial technique was to combine "F.C. Toy" with Shirley Institute and or Manchester. [I do find that there is a book Story of Shirley: History of Shirley Institute, Manchester, 1919-88
but not searchable or viewable online.]
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