Roger Lonsdale

Roger Harrison Lonsdale DPhil, FBA, FRSL (6 August 1934 – 28 February 2022) was a British literary scholar and academic born in Hornsea, East Riding of Yorkshire.^[1][2][3] He was a Fellow and Tutor at Balliol College Oxford from 1963 to 2000, and Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1989^[4] and a Fellow of the British Academy in 1991.^[5][6][7] Lonsdale died at home in Oxford on 28 February 2022, at the age of 87.^[8] He was married to the archaeologist Nicoletta Momigliano.^[9]

Bibliography

• Dr Charles Burney: A literary Biography (Clarendon Press, 1965)
• Editor. The Poems of Gray, Collins and Goldsmith (Longmans, Green and Company, 1969)
• Editor. William Beckford's Vathek (OUP, 1970)
• Editor. History of literature in the English language. 4: the Augustans. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1970–75)
• Editor. Dryden to Johnson. (Barrie and Jenkins, 1971)
• Editor. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (OUP, 1984)
• Editor. Eighteenth century women poets: an Oxford anthology (OUP, 1989)
• Editor. The Lives of Most Eminent English Poets by Samuel Johnson (OUP, 2006)^[10]

References

1. "Lonsdale, Roger, 1934–2022". The British Academy. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
2. "Roger Lonsdale, 87: English literature professor who re-edited Johnson's Lives of Poets". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
3. "Professor Roger Lonsdale". Balliol College, University of Oxford. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
4. Lonsdale, Roger Harrison (26 April 2023). "'Roger Lonsdale'". Royal Society of Literature.
5. "English at Balliol College". Balliol College. Archived from the original on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
6. "Roger Lonsdale, FBA, wins MLA Prize". British Academy. Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
7. "Lonsdale, Prof. Roger Harrison", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 19 June 2018.
8. "Lonsdale, Professor Roger Harrison". The Times. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
9. McLaverty, James. Roger Lonsdale (PDF). p. 407. Retrieved 12 May 2023 – via The British Academy.
10. "Prof Roger Lonsdale, FRSL, FBA". Debrett's. Retrieved 2 May 2011.