Papers of Percy Simpson early 20th century

University of Oxford, English Faculty Library

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Simpson, Percy

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Percy Simpson (1865-1962) was educated ar Selwyn College, Cambridge, and after a career as a schoolmaster, came to Oxford in 1913 to work for the Clarendon Press and to lecture in the School of English. From 1914 to 1934 he was also the School's first Librarian. His monumental edition of Ben Jonson was published by the Clarendon Press, 1925-52. See the Dictionary of National Biography and A list of the published writings of Percy Simpson (Oxford, 1950) for further details. From the g...

Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962

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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 1...