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F. G. B. Hutchings came almost a generation after the early “organisation”men — R. J. Gordon, J. P. Lamb, and their contemporaries. He was in many ways more seminal and more cultured. He had a range as a librarian that put him apart. I worked for him at Leeds from 1946 to 1950, and learned much. But it was only when I became librarian at Rugby, where Fred had served from 1932 to 1938, that I fully realised what a dynamo the early F. G. B. Hutchings must have been. He was the first qualified librarian there, the first breath from outside. The Urban District had just become a Borough, its population increasing from 19,000 to 32,000.