Kenneth G. T. Webster

Kenneth G. T. Webster
Born
Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster

(1871-06-10)June 10, 1871
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
DiedOctober 31, 1942(1942-10-31) (aged 71)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Education
OccupationLiterary scholar
Spouse
Edith Forbes
(m. 1903)
Children2

Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.

Biography

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At Harvard, c. 1893

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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ a b "DUASC - Collections- Castle". Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  3. ^ "ARCHIVED - Search - Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries". collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  4. ^ "The Bernard Capen House". Archived from the original on December 7, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  5. ^ "Dorchester Atheneum". dorchesteratheneum.org. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  6. ^ "Shelburne, Nova Scotia". Archived from the original on May 16, 2008. Retrieved January 5, 2009.
  7. ^ "Kenneth Webster". The Boston Globe. November 2, 1942. p. 10. Retrieved May 5, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
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