Walter Fraser Oakeshott [SEP] place of death
Walter Fraser Oakeshott
Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott (11 November 1903 – 13 October 1987) was a schoolmaster and academic, who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford. He is best known for discovering the Winchester Manuscript of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" in 1934.
Biography.
Oakeshott was born on 11 November 1903 in South Africa, the second son of doctor Walter Oakeshott and his wife Kathleen. His father practised in Lydenburg, Transvaal. After the death of his father, his mother
English: Siân Echard: Caxton and Winchester
- Department of English, Goucher College: Arnie Sanders: The Malory Manuscript
External links.
- Inventory of the Walter Fraser Oakeshott Papers, 1926–1986 (bulk 1949–1986), Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Special Collections and Visual Resources.
- Sir Walter Fraser Oakeshott, photograph by Godfrey Argent, bromide print, 17 July 1969, National Portrait Gallery.