About Hugh Walker
Lived 1855 – 1939 (aged 83–84). Hugh Walker was a British writer, university teacher, literary scholar and man of letters.
Hugh Walker (1855–1939) was a British university educator.
Life
He was born in Kilbirnie, Scotland, on 7 January 1855. He attended Glasgow High School and then Glasgow University. In 1890, he was made Professor in these same subjects. The Age of Tennyson, London, 1897 John B. Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley: a biographical sketch. London, 1903 The Literature of the Victorian Era, Cambridge, 1910 The English Essay and Essayists, London, 1915 The English Satire and Satirists, 1925
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British academic (1855–1939)
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Hugh Walker was born in 1855.
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Hugh Walker died in 1939.
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Hugh Walker was a writer, university teacher, literary scholar and man of letters.
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Hugh Walker was British.
Sources & further reading
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