Kenneth G. T. Webster

Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.

Kenneth G. T. Webster
Born	Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871-06-10)June 10, 1871 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died	October 31, 1942(1942-10-31) (aged 71) Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Education	Dalhousie University Harvard University
Occupation	Literary scholar
Spouse	Edith Forbes ​ (m. 1903)​
Children	2

Biography

At Harvard, c. 1893

Kenneth G. T. Webster was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 10, 1871, and was educated at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1892.^[1] He then took another undergraduate degree at Harvard University, followed by a master's and doctorate there, after which he was immediately offered a faculty position at the institution.^[2] Influenced by Archibald MacMechan he became a medievalist and Arthurian scholar, with an interest in castles.^[3]

He married Edith Forbes on August 15, 1903, and they had two children.^[1]

Webster was also a restorer of historic houses. They include the Barnard Capen House from the early seventeenth century in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he moved to its current site in Milton, Massachusetts in 1913,^[4][5] and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which he bought in 1932 to save it from demolition, and is now a museum.^[2][6]

He died at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston on October 31, 1942.^[7]

Works

• Chief British poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (1916) editor with William Allan Neilson
• Sir Gawain & The Green Knight: Piers the Ploughman (1917) translator with William Alan Nielson
• Lanzelet: A Romance of Lancelot by Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven (1951)
  • New print with additional notes by Roger Sherman Loomis. Columbia University Press, New York City 2005, ISBN 978-0-231-01833-3.
• Guinevere: A Study of Her Abductions (1951)