F. W. Moorman

Frederic William Moorman (1872–1918) was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds from 1912 to 1918.

Biography

Moorman grew up in Devon.[1] He married Frances Beatrice Humpidge (1867–1956) and was the father of John Moorman who would become Bishop of Ripon.

Academic career

Following university study in Strasburg, Moorman joined the staff of the Yorkshire College, Leeds in 1898;[2] The Yorkshire College subsequently became the University of Leeds in 1904. When a new Chair was instituted in 1912, Moorman was appointed the University's first Professor of English Language.

Moorman was associated with the Workers' Educational Association and compiled several books of traditional Yorkshire stories and poems, some in the Yorkshire dialect, alongside scholarly works such as The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire, The Publications of the Thoresby Society, 18 (Leeds: The Thoresby Society, 1910).[3]

Death

Moorman died 'in a drowning accident' in 1918,[2] and was succeeded at Leeds in 1920 by J. R. R. Tolkien.[4]

References

  1. ↑ A. N. Shinman, The University of Leeds: The First Half-Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), p. 34.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 A. J. Taylor, 'History at Leeds 1877-1974: The Evolution of a Discipline', Northern History, 10 (1975), 141-64 (at p. 154 n. 43).
  3. ↑ A. N. Shinman, The University of Leeds: The First Half-Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), pp. 123-24.
  4. ↑ The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection, ed. by Humphrey Carpenter (London: Allen and Unwin, 1981), no. 46.

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