- Norman Davis (academic)
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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).
References
- ‘DAVIS, Prof. Norman’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 26 May 2011
Categories:- 1913 births
- 1989 deaths
- Statutory Professors of the University of Oxford
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- New Zealand Rhodes scholars
- Academic biography stubs
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