Norman Davis (academic)

Norman Davis (academic): Norman Davis MBE FBA (16 May 1913 – 2 December 1989) was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford, 1959–1980 in succession to J. R. R. Tolkien.

Davis was born in Dunedin, New Zealand. Educated at Otago Boys' High School, Dunedin, Otago University, and Merton College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar 1934).

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‘DAVIS, Prof. Norman’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 May 2011

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Date of birth 16 May 1913

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Date of death 2 December 1989

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Name	Davis, Norman
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Date of birth	16 May 1913
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Date of death	2 December 1989
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