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Bennett, J. A. W. (Jack Arthur Walter)

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Personal name headingBennett, J. A. W. (Jack Arthur Walter)
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Variant(s)Bennett, Jack A. W.
Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter
Other standard no.Q4241686
Associated countryAustralia England
Birth date1911-02-28
Death date1981-01-29
Place of birthAuckland (N.Z.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Field of activityEnglish literature--Middle English, 1100-1500
AffiliationUniversity of Cambridge
Profession or occupationEnglish teachers
Found inHis English studies, 1948: Hickes's "Thesaurus" a study in Oxford book-production.
Biog. resource center (Contemp. authors), Oct. 15, 2004 (Jack Arthur Walter Bennett; b. Feb. 28, 1911, Auckland, N.Z.; d. Jan. 29, 1981, Los Angeles, Calif.; Merton College, Oxford, D. Phil, 1938)
Information from 678 converted Jan. 5, 2015 (M.A., D.Phil.)
Wikipedia, Mar. 6, 2017 (Jack A. W. Bennett; Jack Arthur Walter Bennett; New Zealand-born literary scholar; best known as a scholar of Middle English literature; in 1964 he succeeded C.S. Lewis as Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University; his most substantial work was the volume on Middle English Literature for the Oxford History of English Literature, completed after his death by Douglas Gray)
Associated languageeng