Kenneth G. T. Webster

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Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871 – 1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar. He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, and was educated at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1892. He then took a further undergraduate degree at Harvard University, followed by a master's and doctorate there. He was offered a teaching position immediately. Influenced by Archibald MacMechan he became a medievalist and Arthurian scholar, with an interest in castles.

He also was a restorer of old houses: the Barnard Capen House from the early seventeenth century in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he moved to its current site in Milton, Massachusetts in 1913; and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which he bought in 1932 (now a museum).

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• 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)
• Guinevere: A Study of Her Abductions (1951)