A CHAIR FOR " Q."
PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE AT CAMBRIDGE. The King has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Sir Arthur QuillerCoueh to bo King Edward VII Professor of English Literature in tho University of■ Cambridige. ' ' , The intended foundation of this professorship w;as announced, jiist two years ago, a sum of .£20,000 being giivon by Sir Harold Harmsworth to Cambridge University for its endowment. Tho appointment, to:the chair is in the hands of the Crown. The incomo is .££oo. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch is. of course, tho fn.mo.ns novelist "Q" And tho poet and essayist whose delightful volumes are known to n.n immense circlo of the public Ho lives at Fowe-y, in Cornwall, ft nlaco'immortalised'in his-books as Troy Town.. Occasional sketches from Troy, pxliaLina sea-Air and country humours, haw appeared reconly in tho "Daily Mail." Liko many .Cambridge professors before him, the new professor is an Oxford man, graduating from Trinity College,
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 8
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152A CHAIR FOR " Q." Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1620, 11 December 1912, Page 8
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