Walter Raleigh (professor)
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Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (September 5, 1861 - May 13, 1922) was a Scottish scholar, poet and author.
Raleigh was educated at the City of London School, Edinburgh Academy, University College London, and King's College, Cambridge.
He was Professor of English Literature at the Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh (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 (1904-22).
On the outbreak of World War I he turned to the war as his primary subject, as well as publishing works on major English authors. 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) in 1922, being survived by his wife Lucie Gertrude, and their four sons and a daughter. 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, where they may be mistakenly attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh.
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