Kenneth G. T. Webster | |
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Born | Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster June 10, 1871
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | October 31, 1942
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 71)
Education | |
Occupation | Literary scholar |
Spouse |
Edith Forbes (
m. 1903) |
Children | 2 |
Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.
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]
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Kenneth G. T. Webster | |
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Born | Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster June 10, 1871
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | October 31, 1942
Boston, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 71)
Education | |
Occupation | Literary scholar |
Spouse |
Edith Forbes (
m. 1903) |
Children | 2 |
Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.
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]
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