Knight, George Richard Wilson — Als to Roy Walker

Leeds, ca. 1952. 1 p. George Richard Wilson Knight (1897-1984), English literary critic and academic, author of The Wheel of Fire on Shakespeare's drama; also an actor and theatrical director, and considered an outstanding lecturer; educated at Dulwich College, and after serving as a despatch rider in World War I, at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He went into teaching; his first academic post was at Trinity College, Toronto in 1931. He taught at Stowe School from 1941 to 1946 and then was Reader in English Literature at Leeds University, where he became a professor in 1956. The classical scholar William Francis Jackson Knight (1895-1964), of whom he wrote a biography, was his brother. With tape residue along left front margin. From a collection of letters and papers amassed by illustrator and painter Geoffrey Robinson during his years as a publisher with Rockliff, John Baker, Maclaren, et al. .