Craigie, William Alexander ♂

Education

Student United College 1883-1884 Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1884-1885 Eng. Lit.; Gk. 1; Lat. 1; Math. 1 1885-1886 Gk. 2; Lat. 2; Math. 2 1886-1887 N. Phil.; Log.; Gk. 3 1887-1888 Gk. 3; Lat. 3. New Endowment association bursary, 1883. Foundation bursar, 1884. Bruce bursar, 1885. Spence bursar, 1886.

Miller prize, 1888. M.A. 18.4.1889 1st cl. hons. Classics, 2nd cl. hons. Philosophy. LL.D. 2.4.1907.

Assistant in Humanity 1893- 1897.

Birth/childhood

Born 13.8.1867 son of James Craigie, gardener, Dundee and Christina Gow.

Attended West End Academy Dundee.

Career

Assistant in humanity 1893- 1897. [St Andrews University]

Also at Oxford University - Oriel College (Guthrie scholar).

Joint editor New English Dictionary 1901. Taylorian lecturer in Scandinavian languages, Oxford 1905. Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford University 1915 - 1925. Professor of English, Chicago University 1925 - 1936 (retired). Knighted 1928. [University lecturer, university professor]

Publications

Fairy tales and other stories by Hans Christian Anderson, revised and in part newly translated by W.A. & J.K.Craigie. (Oxford: OUP, 1914)

Letters of Andrew Lang to Sir William Craigie, in St Andrews Digital Collections.

Death

Died 2.9.1957.

Sources

• UYUC400: 30.10.1883, 4.11.1884, 5.11.1886, 9.4.1888
• UYUY452/20/570, 21/72
• Births Reg. Dundee 2 Dist. 1867/1308
• Proc. Brit. Acad. 47 1961 p273f
• William Craigie in Wikipedia.