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Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (5 September 1861 – 13 May 1922) was a Scottish
Scotland

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 scholar, poet and author.

He was born in London, the fifth child and only son of a local Congregationalist minister. Raleigh was educated at the City of London School
City of London School

The City of London School is a boys' independent school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and of the co-educational City of London Freemen's School ....
, Edinburgh Academy
Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school. It is self-governed and financed, though it remains subject to inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education most recently in 2006....
, University College London
University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
, and King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
.

He was Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh
Aligarh

Aligarh is a city in Aligarh District in the Northern India Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. The city is located about 90 miles southeast of New Delhi....
 (1885-87), Professor of Modern Literature at the University College Liverpool (1890-1900), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow University (1900-1904), and Chair of English Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford

Merton College is one of the Colleges of Oxford University of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III of England and later to Edward I of England, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it....
 (1904-22).






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Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (5 September 1861 – 13 May 1922) was a Scottish
Scotland

conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
 scholar, poet and author.

He was born in London, the fifth child and only son of a local Congregationalist minister. Raleigh was educated at the City of London School
City of London School

The City of London School is a boys' independent school on the banks of the River Thames in the City of London. It is the brother school of the City of London School for Girls and of the co-educational City of London Freemen's School ....
, Edinburgh Academy
Edinburgh Academy

The Edinburgh Academy is an independent school. It is self-governed and financed, though it remains subject to inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education most recently in 2006....
, University College London
University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
, and King's College, Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge

King's College, Cambridge is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Formally The King's College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge, it is referred to as King's within the university....
.

He was Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh
Aligarh

Aligarh is a city in Aligarh District in the Northern India Indian States and territories of India of Uttar Pradesh. The city is located about 90 miles southeast of New Delhi....
 (1885-87), Professor of Modern Literature at the University College Liverpool (1890-1900), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow University (1900-1904), and Chair of English Literature at Oxford University and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford
Merton College, Oxford

Merton College is one of the Colleges of Oxford University of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 1260s when Walter de Merton, chancellor to Henry III of England and later to Edward I of England, first drew up statutes for an independent academic community and established endowments to support it....
 (1904-22). Raleigh was knighted in 1911.

On the outbreak of World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
 he turned to the war as his primary subject. In 1915 he delivered the Vanuxem lectures at Princeton
Princeton University

Princeton University is a private university university located in Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League and has the largest per-student Financial endowment in the world....
 on "The Origins of Romance" and "The Beginnings of the Romantic Revival," and lectured on Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer was an English author, poet, philosopher, Bureaucracy, Noble court and diplomat. Although he wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales....
 at Brown
Brown University

Brown University is a private university university located in , United States and is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1764 as the College of Rhode Island, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in New England and Colonial Colleges in the United States....
, which gave him the degree of Litt.D.
Doctor of Letters

Doctor of Letters is a university academic degree.In the United Kingdom, Australia, India and certain other countries, the degree is a higher doctorate, above the Doctor of Philosophy , and is issued on the basis of a long record of research and publication....
  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
Near East

Near East today is an ambiguous term that covers different countries for archeologists and historians, on one hand, and for political scientists, economists, and journalists, on the other....
) in 1922, being survived by his wife Lucie Gertrude, and their four sons and a daughter. He is buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Lawrence at North Hinksey
North Hinksey

North Hinksey is a small village and civil parish in the England county of Oxfordshire, just west of the city boundary of Oxford.It has a manor house, a public house , a local Church of England primary school, and a small parish church dedicated to Saint Lawrence, which dates back to at least the 12th century....
, near Oxford. 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
Project Gutenberg

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, where they may be mistakenly attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh, was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier and explorer.Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne....
.

Raleigh Park
Raleigh Park, Oxfordshire

Raleigh Park is a park of about in North Hinksey, Oxfordshire . The land was formerly part of the estates of the House of Harcourt family. The land was sold in 1924 to Raymond ffennell, then owner of Wytham Abbey, who gave it to the Oxford City Council for use as a park....
 at North Hinksey, near Harcourt Hill
Harcourt Hill

Harcourt Hill is a hill and community in North Hinksey in Oxfordshire, England , west of the city of Oxford. There is a good view of the city from the hill....
 where he lived from 1909 to his death, is named after him.

List of works

  • The English Novel (1894)
  • Robert Louis Stevenson: An Essay (1895)
  • Style (1897)
  • Milton (1900)
  • Wordsworth (1903)
  • The English Voyagers (1904)
  • Shakespeare (1907)
  • Six Essays on Johnson (1910)


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