The
original college library of 1861 first expanded in the 1920s when the
Headmaster, Father Paul Nevill, commissioned Robert Thompson to furnish
the library. In the next decades Thompson worked on further expansions
and the library is reputed to be his greatest work. The signature of his
work is a carved mouse, for which he became known as 'The Mouseman of
Kilburn'. Since his death in 1955, new furniture for the library has
continued to be commissioned from Robert Thompson's Craftsmen Ltd.
