Arthur Clare Cawley (1913–1993) was an English literature academic. He was foundation professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. The university currently offers a post-graduate scholarship in his name.[1]
In 1939 he and fellow UCL postgraduate student Winifred Cawley were married.[2] Cawley's 1953 PhD thesis at London University was a scholarly edition of six of the thirty-six Wakefield Pageants.[3]
He was appointed the inaugural Darnell Professorship of English at the University of Queensland in 1958.[4]. A noted Mediaevalist, Cawley has commentated and edited numerous works including "Everyman"[5], mediaeval miracle plays[5], the Canterbury Tales[6], and the Wakefield Mystery Plays.[7][8]
Arthur Clare Cawley died in 1993.[2]