Percy Simpson papers 1870-1953

Masefield, John, 1878-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jn31s6 (person)

The English poet, playwright and novelist John Masefield was born in 1878 in Ledbury. After running away to sea early (when he was thirteen) he settled in London from 1897 and devoted himself to writing. Later he moved to Oxford which was where he lived when most of the following collection was produced. Masefield became Poet Laureate in 1930 and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1935. Among his more notable works are some early reflections of his maritime experiences in Salt Water Ba...

University of Oxford

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq8rcd (corporateBody)

University of Oxford From the guide to the University of Oxford Musical Exercises, 1890, (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) Not applicable. From the guide to the Typescript Theses, 1910-55, (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford) Rev. Samuel Myles graduated from Harvard College in 1684. From the description of Diploma : manuscript, 1693 July 14. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612804731 ...

Simpson, Percy, 1865-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61268cb (person)

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...

Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mc93mx (person)

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English critic and essayist. In 1885, Raleigh went out to India having been appointed the first Professor of English literature at Aligarh Muslim University. In 1889, he was appointed Professor of modern literature at University College, Liverpool, and he began to write THE ENGLISH NOVEL (his first novel), ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: AN ESSAY and STYLE. He was Clark lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1899, and incorporated his lecture...

Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b00fn (person)

English museum director, art historian and collector. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge to Hugh W. Davies, 1911 Jan. 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899880 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hammersmith, to Mackenzie Bell, 1896 Nov. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899382 From the description of Autograph letter signed (retained copy) : Cambridge, to Lord Henry Bentinck, 1909 Feb. 17. (Unknown). ...

Drinkwater, John, 1882-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ks6stk (person)

Drinkwater, a British playwright and poet, worked for an insurance company. In 1909 he became manager of the Birmingham Repertory Company, and his most successful plays included "Abraham Lincoln," "Mary Stuart," and "Bird in Hand." Drinkwater also published several critical literary biographies. From the description of Manuscripts and Correspondence, 1914-1916. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122612764 John Drinkwater was an English author and actor, proba...

Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever), 1866-1954

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg3f6z (person)

Jackson, William A. (William Alexander), 1905-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kk9gvc (person)

Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard University.. From the description of William A. Jackson diplomas and certificates, 1927-1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 663976597 Jackson was a bibliographer and librarian. He was the first librarian of the Houghton Library at Harvard. From the description of William A. Jackson letters to Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 1945. (Harvard University). WorldC...

Strong, Eugénie, 1860-1943

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60p534n (person)

Eugenie Strong was born on March 25, 1860. Educated in France, she came up to Girton College in 1879 to read for the Classical Tripos, which she took in 1882. On leaving Girton she spent several years training for a career in archaeology. She taught in London for a time, then spent time studying and working at the British School at Athens and in Germany, where she worked with Adolf Furtwangler. In 1897, she married Sandford Arthur Strong, orientalist and Librarian to the House of Lords and also ...

Jonson, Ben, 1573?-1637

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd4vkd (person)

Herford, C.H. (Charles Harold), 1853-1931

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h1611z (person)

English literary scholar and critic, most noted for his biography and edition of the works of Ben Johnson in 11 volumes. From the description of C. H. Herford letter to Glen Walton Blodgett [manuscript], 1923 Feb 10. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 420531278 ...

Jenkinson, Hilary, Sir

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64484gd (person)

Garrod, H.W. (Heathcote William), 1878-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c53kgd (person)

Chapman, R.W. (Robert William), 1881-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67m0d22 (person)

Robert William Chapman (1881-1960) graduated from the University of Oxford, and was employed by the university's Clarendon Press from 1906 to 1942. He edited numerous scholarly editions of Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. The culmination of his career was The Letters of Samuel Johnson, which he began researching in the mid-1920s, and completed in 1952. This remained the definitive edition of Johnson's correspondence until Bruce Redford's The Letters of Samuel Johnson in 1992. From the...

Greg, W.W. (Walter Wilson), 1875-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k64kxt (person)

Walter Wilson Greg, bibliographer and literary scholar, was born in Wimbledon Common, England, on July 9, 1875. He was the only child of the idustrialist and author William Rathbone Greg and Julia Wilson Greg, daughter of James Wilson, the founder of The Economist . Greg's family hoped that he would assume the editorship of the newspaper someday, and he was educated at Harrow School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, from which he received a "pass" degree in 1897. During...

Bang, W. (Willy), 1869-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xq185c (person)

Milford, Humphrey Sumner, Sir, 1877-1952

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r2123w (person)

Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford, English publisher. From the guide to the Sir Humphrey Sumner Milford manuscript material : 3 items, 1903-1927, (The New York Public Library. Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle.) Epithet: Publisher to Oxford University British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001026.0x0000ef ...

Abraham, Charles John, 1814-1903

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vq4c4p (person)

Epithet: Bishop of Wellington British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000349.0x000365 ...