Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.
Kenneth G. T. Webster | |
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| Born | Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster June 10, 1871 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Died | October 31, 1942 (aged 71) Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Literary scholar |
| Spouse |
Edith Forbes (m. 1903) |
| Children | 2 |
Biography edit
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Kenneth G. T. Webster was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 10, 1871, and was educated at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1892.[1] He then took another undergraduate degree at Harvard University, followed by a master's and doctorate there, after which he was immediately offered a faculty position at the institution.[2] Influenced by Archibald MacMechan he became a medievalist and Arthurian scholar, with an interest in castles.[3]
He married Edith Forbes on August 15, 1903, and they had two children.[1]
Webster was also a restorer of historic houses. They include the Barnard Capen House from the early seventeenth century in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he moved to its current site in Milton, Massachusetts in 1913,[4][5] and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which he bought in 1932 to save it from demolition, and is now a museum.[2][6]
He died at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston on October 31, 1942.[7]
Works edit
- Chief British poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1916) editor with William Allan Neilson
- Sir Gawain & The Green Knight: Piers the Ploughman (1917) translator with William Alan Nielson
- Lanzelet: A Romance of Lancelot by Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven (1951)
- New print with additional notes by Roger Sherman Loomis. Columbia University Press, New York City 2005, ISBN 978-0-231-01833-3.
- Guinevere: A Study of Her Abductions (1951)
Notes edit
- ^ a b Class of 1893 Harvard College Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report. Cambridge. 1918. pp. 302–303. Retrieved May 5, 2023 – via Google Books.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "DUASC - Collections- Castle". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "ARCHIVED - Search - Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "The Bernard Capen House". Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
- ^ "Dorchester Atheneum". dorchesteratheneum.org. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
- ^ "Shelburne, Nova Scotia". Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
- ^ "Kenneth Webster". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1942. p. 10. Retrieved May 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.