English man of letters, born at Glasgow on the 20th of June 1858. Educated at St. Charles’s College, London, he became Taylorian lecturer in Spanish at Oxford in 1902 and Gilmour professor of Spanish language and literature from 1909 to 1916, when he was transferred to London as Cervantes professor of Spanish language and literature to the university of London. This post he resigned in 1920. He became a fellow of the British Academy and corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy and other Spanish societies, and a Knight Commander of the Order of Alphonso XII. Amongst his publications are a Life of Cervantes (1892); an Introduction to the editio princeps of Don Quixote (1898–9); a History of Spanish Literature (1898); Cervantes in England (1905); Cervantes and Shakespeare (1916) and many other books and papers. (See authored articles: José de Acosta, Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, Mateo Alemán, Luis Barahona de Soto, Andrés Bello, Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Fernán Caballero, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Ramón de Campoamor, Alonso de Castillo Solórzano, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Juan de la Cueva, João de Deus, José Echegaray, Benito Pérez Galdós, José Francisco de Isla, Don Juan Manuel, Mariano José de Larra, Ramon Llull, Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera, Guy de Maupassant, Tirso de Molina, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Armando Palacio Valdés, Emilia Pardo Bazán, José María de Pereda, Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas, Juan Ruiz, Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza, Manuel Tamayo y Baus, Juan Valera, Lope de Vega, Juan de Tarsis, Count de Villamediana, Enrique de Villena, José Zorrilla y Moral.)
