Retirement After World War II, Emden's health started to fail and he resigned his Principalship at the age of 63 and was succeeded by his Vice-Principal Rev. J.N.D. Kelly. His retirement did not curtail his academic career, and from 1957 to 1959 he published A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500 with a similar work on Cambridge University in 1963. This was followed in 1967 by a Survey of Dominicans in England and in 1974 a supplement to A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1501-1540. A.B. Emden died on 8 June 1979 a bachelor at his home in Headington, Oxford - a home he shared with his mother until her death in 1955. He left the bulk of his £400,000 estate to St Edmund Hall and his ashes are interred in the college's ante-chapel. Selected bibliography Emden, A.B. [1927] (1968) An Oxford hall in medieval times : being the early history of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 322 p. Emden, A.B. (1932) An account of the chapel and library building, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford : written in the year of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the consecration of the chapel, Oxford : Printed by John Johnson at the University Press, 73 p. Emden, A.B. (1957) A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500: vol. 1. A.-E., Oxford : Clarendon Press, Emden, A.B. (1958) A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500: vol. 2. F.-O., Oxford : Clarendon Press, Emden, A.B. (1959) A biographical register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500: vol. 3. P.-Z., Oxford : Clarendon Press, Emden, A.B. (1963) A biographical register of the University of Cambridge to 1500, Cambridge University Press, 695 p Emden, A.B. (1967) A survey of Dominicans in England based on the ordination lists in episcopal registers (1268 to 1538), Institutum historicum ff. praedicatorum Romae ad S. Sabinae. Dissertationes historicae, 18, Rome : S. Sabina, 497 p. Emden, A.B. (1974) A biographical register of the University of Oxford, A.D.1501-1540, Oxford : Clarendon Press, Emden, A.B. (1977) Medieval decorated tiles in Dorset, London : Phillimore, Notes References Anon. (1934) Hall and College, Newspaper clipping dated 11 October found pasted inside the front cover of a library copy of Emden (1927) Kelly, J.N.D. (1989) St. Edmund Hall: Almost Seven Hundred Years, Oxford University Press, Pugh, Ralph B.