Death of noted N.Z. scholar
PA .. Auckland! Professor J. A. W. Bennett, the New Zealander who! succeeded the writer. Dr C. S. Lewis,.at Cambridge University as. professor of Medieval and Renaissance Eng-! lish, has died. He was 69. ! Professor Bennett died; in! Los" ’ Angeles' eh route "to I New Zealand-for .a visit. He had "retired recently. He was art: old boy of Mount Albert Grammar School. J '•? » Professor Bennett was at Oxford' University' in 1933. With 'the exception of the war years, when he was Director of'British Information' in New' York, he remained at Oxford until 1964, when he succeeded Dr Lewis at Cambridge University.
Professor Bennett was'recognised as one of the' leading Middle English scholars in. England. He edited numerous books, including works on Chaucer and early Middle English verse and, prose. He was a fellow of the British Academy.
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Press, 9 February 1981, Page 11
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