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

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

  • 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

  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.