Author Description

Professor Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (1861-1922) 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.