William Turner Alchin [SEP] date of death
William Turner Alchin
William Turner Alchin (1790 – 3 February 1865) was an English antiquarian and solicitor. 
Life.
Alchin was born at St. Mary-at-Hill, Billingsgate in the City of London. For some years he practised as a solicitor at Winchester. On the retirement of William Herbert as librarian of the Guildhall Library, London in 1845, Alchin was appointed to the office, which he held until his death, which occurred at Chelsea on 3 February 1865.
Works.
During the
consisted of a few rooms in the front of the Guildhall. In 1865, on the death of William Turner Alchin, he received the appointment of librarian, and, on the completion of the new building in Basinghall Street at the eastern end of the Guildhall, he superintended the move of the collections to the new building and arranged the museum.
He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in May 1868, and was for many years a member of the councils of the Library Association and the London