Walter Raleigh (professor)
Professor
Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (
September 5,
1861 -
May 13,
1922) was a
Scottish scholar, poet and author.
Raleigh was educated at the
City of London School,
Edinburgh Academy,
University College London, and
King's College, Cambridge.
He was Professor of English Literature at the
Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in
Aligarh (1885-87), Professor of Modern Literature at the
University College Liverpool (1890-1900), Chair of English Language and Literature at
Glasgow University (1900-1904), and Chair of English Literature at
Oxford University (1904-22).
On the outbreak of
World War I he turned to the war as his primary subject, as well as publishing works on major English authors. His finest book may be the first volume of
The War in the Air (1922).
He died from
typhoid (contracted during a visit to the
Near East) in 1922, being survived by his wife Lucie Gertrude, and their four sons and a daughter. His son Hilary edited his light prose, verse, and plays in
Laughter from a Cloud (1923).
A few of his works are available on
Project Gutenberg, where they may be mistakenly attributed to
Sir Walter Raleigh.
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