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Herbert John Davis, FBA (24 May 1893 – 28 March 1967) was an English literary scholar and university administrator. Davis was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics, graduating in 1914. After service in the First World War, he was appointed to a lectureship in English at the University of Leeds in 1920. Two years later, he moved to University College, Toronto, to be an associate professor; he was guest professor at the University of Cologne in the 1924–25 year, before returning to Toronto, where he was promoted to a full professorship in 1935.

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rdfs:comment	Herbert John Davis, FBA (24 May 1893 – 28 March 1967) was an English literary scholar and university administrator. Davis was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics, graduating in 1914. After service in the First World War, he was appointed to a lectureship in English at the University of Leeds in 1920. Two years later, he moved to University College, Toronto, to be an associate professor; he was guest professor at the University of Cologne in the 1924–25 year, before returning to Toronto, where he was promoted to a full professorship in 1935. (en)
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birth place	Northamptonshire, England (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Proceedings of the British Academy University College, Toronto University of Cologne University of Leeds University of Oxford Textual criticism 1967 deaths College Archives (Smith College) Cornell University Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Smith College Professor 1893 births 20th-century American academics Lecturer Fellow of the British Academy Northamptonshire Reader (academic rank) Helen Gardner (critic) St John's College, Oxford Classics Presidents of Smith College World War I World War II WAVES dbr:Goldwin_Smith_Professor
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/1095/54p289.pdf https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/4/resources/13 https://findingaids.smith.edu/repositories/4/resources/2
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has abstract	Herbert John Davis, FBA (24 May 1893 – 28 March 1967) was an English literary scholar and university administrator. Davis was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where he read classics, graduating in 1914. After service in the First World War, he was appointed to a lectureship in English at the University of Leeds in 1920. Two years later, he moved to University College, Toronto, to be an associate professor; he was guest professor at the University of Cologne in the 1924–25 year, before returning to Toronto, where he was promoted to a full professorship in 1935. In 1938, he moved to Cornell University to chair the English department (in 1939, he also became there), but left in 1940 to become the fourth official president of Smith College, serving from 1940 to 1949, succeeding acting president Elizabeth Cutter Morrow. During World War II, he presided over the creation of America's first Officers' Training Unit of the Women's Reserve (also known as WAVES). In 1949, he was appointed to a readership in textual criticism at the University of Oxford, where he became a professor in 1956. He retired four years later, having been elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1954. (en)
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