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Watson/7/4
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- 1959 - 2013 (Creation)
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1 file; paper
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Biographical history
George Grimes Watson was born in Brisbane, Australia, on 13 October 1927. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and the University of Queensland, where he graduated in 1948 with a degree in English. He secured a scholarship for a second degree and received an English degree from Trinity College, Oxford in 1950; he worked for the European Commission as an interpreter before becoming a lecturer in English at Cambridge in 1959 and a Fellow of St John's College in 1961. He remained at St John's until his death on 2 August 2013.
Watson edited 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. As well as producing wide-ranging literary and cultural criticism, he was involved in leftist politics, campaigning as a Liberal candidate in 1959 and 1979 and working as Editor for the Unservile State Group; his political writing often critiques socialism from a liberal perspective.
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This subseries collects, alphabetically by surname of the deceased, death notices, funeral service booklets and obituaries of various people. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.
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ADAMS, Douglas Noël
ADRIAN, Richard Hume
BARRÈRE, Jean-Bertrand Marie
BARTHES, Roland
BENNETT, Jack Arthur Walter
BLACKFORD, Staige D
BROGAN, Denis William
BUTTERFIELD, Herbert
CHAMPERNOWNE, David Gawen
CLIFFORD, Gay
COWLING, Maurice John
CRAWLEY, Charles William
CROOK, John Anthony
DAVIES, Hugh Sykes
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie Elizabeth
ELVIN, Lionel
FERDINAND, Richard
FORSTER, Leonard
GALLAGHER, John Andrew
GOODWIN, Richard Murphey
HOUGH, Graham
JACK, Ian
JEWELL, Peter Arundel
JOHN, Otto
JONES, Trevor David
KALDOR, Nicholas
KERMODE, Frank
KEYNES, John Maynard
KITSON CLARK, George Sidney Roberts
KNIGHTS, Lionel Charles
KNOWLES, Michael David
LASKY, Melvin Jonah
LASLETT, Thomas Peter Ruffell
LEE, Arthur Guy
LEWY, Casimir
MacKINNON, Donald MacKenzie
MANSERGH, Philip Nicholas Seton
MEADE, James Edward
MORGAN, Margaret Ruth
NICHOLAS, Tressilian Charles
OWEN, Gwilym Ellis Lane
PIGOU, Arthur Cecil
PINTER, Harold
POLACK, Kenneth
POSTAN, Michael Moïssey
ROBINSON, Edward Austin Gossage
ROBINSON, Joan Violet
ROBSON, Robert
SALTER, Elizabeth
SHILS, Edward A
STERN, Joseph Peter Maria
STONE, John Richard Nicholas
STOREY, Graham
STRAUMANN, Heinrich
WELSFORD, Enid Elder Hancock
WILLIAMS, Bernard Arthur Owen