Biographical Note: Gordon Huntington Harper was an author and instructor in English, The Johns Hopkins University.
He was born in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, Oct. 14, 1904. After receiving the B.A. degree from Princeton in 1927, he studied for two years in Europe, partly at Cambridge University where he pursued his particular interest in the Oxford Movement. Harper completed his graduate work at Hopkins, received the Ph. D. in 1933, and was appointed instructor in the Department of English. Harper's dissertation was titled "The Froude Family in the Oxford Movement," and this was expanded into a published work (1933), "Cardinal Newman and William Froude, F.R.S." Gordon Huntington Harper died at the age of twenty-nine, April 8, 1934.
From the description of Gordon Huntington Harper papers, 1921-1934. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 48394093
