Record ID:
35502734 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50025581
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1887-09-02
  • Opotiki (N.Z.)
Death:
  • 1971-08-26
  • Lelant (England)
Associated with:
  • New Zealand England Oxford (England) London (England) Isles of Scilly (England)
Lived/located in:
  • Berkshire (England)
  • Boars Hill (Berkshire, England)
Fields of activity:
  • English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100 Anglo-Saxon texts
Occupations:
  • Publishers and publishing Editors Authors
Notes:
  • The lay of Havelok the Dane ... 1915
  • Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1887)
  • Wikipedia 7 September 2023: (Kenneth Sisam FBA (2 September 1887 – 26 August 1971) was a New Zealand academic and publisher, whose major career was as an employee of the Oxford University Press. He was born at Ōpōtiki and studied at University College, Auckland (MA 1910). With a Rhodes scholarship, he studied at Merton College (Oxford) (B.Litt. 1915) and taught for some time, J.R.R. Tolkien being one of his students. He did some work on the Oxford English Dictionary, and in 1922 joined Oxford University Press, continuing his work on Anglo-Saxon texts. He retired in 1948 to the Scilly Isles, continuing his scholarly work; he died at Lelant, Cornwall.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Sisam
Local system number:
  • 000000505595
  • abv00423171
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng DLC OCoLC IEN rda VJTL