death_place death_date birth_date article_title name occupation
brisbane , queensland , australia 07 january 1993 21 november 1913 arthur clare cawley
 arthur clare cawley academic
arthur clare cawley

arthur clare cawley -lrb- 1913 -- 1993 -rrb- was an english literature academic .
cawley graduated from university college london in 1934 .
he went to the education department at the university of hull for a year and in 1935 returned to ucl for three years as a part-time lecturer whilst he completed his ma .
in 1938 , cawley went to harvard on a commonwealth fellowship and , on his return to england , joined the british council .
he went as professor of english to iasi in romania until the german invasion forced him to leave and he spent 1941 to 1945 in egypt and in benghazi , libya .
finally , still with the british council , he taught in reykjavík , iceland .
in 1946 cawley returned to england and after a year at the university of sheffield was appointed to a lectureship at the university of leeds in 1947 .
he completed his phd in 1952 .
his thesis for london university was a scholarly edition of six of the thirty-six wakefield pageants .
in 1959 cawley left leeds to go to the darnell chair of english at the university of queensland , australia .
he remained there for six years before returning to leeds as professor of english language and medieval english literature in 1965 .
he retired from his chair in 1979 with the title emeritus professor .
the university currently offers a post-graduate scholarship in his name .
a noted mediaevalist , cawley has commentated and edited numerous works including `` everyman '' , mediaeval miracle plays , the canterbury tales , and the wakefield mystery plays .
in 1939 cawley and fellow university college london postgraduate student winifred cawley were married .
arthur clare cawley died in 1993 .
