in the first class reading English. He became Fellow of English at Merton College in 1921, and was Merton Professor of English Literature, 1929–46.
* Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867–1957), lexicographer and philologist, read Greats at Oriel College, Oxford, after which he worked on the New English Dictionary, 1897–1933, and was joint editor, 1901–33. He was Taylorian Lecturer in Scandinavian Languages, 1904–16, and Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, 1916–25. His works include Scandinavian Folk-Lore (1896) and Specimens of Icelandic Rímur (1952).
† Herbert Francis Brett-Smith (1884–1951) took his BA from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1907. He was afterwards a lecturer in English Literature in several colleges of Oxford, and Goldsmith’s Reader in English.
NOTES
1 SBJ, ch. 12, p. 144.
2 Ibid., p. 145.
3 FL, pp. 297–8.
4 Ibid., p. 301.
5 Ibid., letter to Arthur Greeves of 13 May 1917, p. 304.
6 Ibid., p. 301.
7 Ibid., p. 304.
8 Ibid., p. 321.
9 Ibid., p. 324.
10 Ibid., p. 334.
11 Ibid., p. 335.
12 Ibid., p. 337.
13 Ibid., p. 339.
14 Ibid., p. 345.
15 ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, p. 57.
16 FL, p. 345n.
17 Ibid., p. 346.
18 Ibid.
19 SBJ, ch. 4, p. 51.
20 Ibid., ch. 12, p. 150.
21 For an account of his bravery see FL, p. 357, n. 11.
22 FL, p. 348.
23 Ibid., p. 353.
24 Martin Gilbert, The First World War (1994), p. 414.
25 SBJ, ch. 12, pp. 151–2.
26 Everard Wyrall, A History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) 1914–1919 (1927), pp. 292–4.
27 From a sketch of his life Lewis wrote for the jacket of Perelandra (New York: Macmillan, 1944).
28 FL, p. 366.
29 Ibid., p. 368.
30 Ibid., pp. 373–4.
31 SBJ, ch. 13, p. 154.
32 FL, letter to Arthur Greeves of 23 May 1918, p. 371.
33 Ibid., p. 386.
34 ‘Memoir’, p. 30.
35 LP VI, pp. 44–5.
36 FL, p. 397.
37 Ibid., p. 403.
38 Ibid., pp. 411, 412, 413.
39 Ibid., p. 419.
40 Ibid., p. 420.
41 ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, p. 67.
42 FL, p. 428.
43 Ibid., p. 426.
44 Ibid., letter to Albert Lewis of 4 February 1919, p. 430.
45 Ibid., p. 430.