Holmes, George, 1927-2009 (Personal Name)

Not to be confused with Holmes, George Andrew, also b. 1927.

His Dante, 1980: CIP galley t.p. (George Holmes) CIP data sheet (fellow of St. Catherine's Coll., Oxford; sixth form and tertiary educ., Italian lit. courses, English poetry courses; b. 1927)

Oxford Univ. cal., 1978-79 (Holmes, George Arthur, fellow of St. Catherine's Coll.)

The times, 20 March 2009, viewed via ProQuest Central, June 23, 2020 (Professor George Holmes; prolific Oxford historian who broadened his researches from medieval England to encompass the entirety of the Renaissance in Italy; born on April 22, 1927; died on January 29, 2009, aged 81; son of a watchmaker; educated at Ardwyn County School, Aberystwyth, and University College Aberystwyth; went to St John's College, Cambridge, where he was a research Fellow from 1951 to 1954; in 1954 he was appointed tutor in medieval history at St Catherine's Society, Oxford (which in 1962 became St Catherine's College; established the new collee''s library and was Vice-Master between 1969 and ; in 1989 he succeeded Karl Leyser as Chichele Professor of Medieval History, and became a Fellow of All Souls)