Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962

Percy Simpson (1865-1962) graduated from Cambridge but spent the most productive years of his scholarly career at Oxford. He is best-known as an editor of Ben Jonson's Works (1925-52), first with C. H. Herford and, from 1937, with Evelyn Spearing Simpson, his wife. He was also the author of Shakespearian Punctuation (1911) and Proofreading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries (1935). He married Evelyn Spearing in 1921.

From the description of Percy Simpson papers 1870-1953. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702135904