Harold Lawton

Harold Walter Lawton (born July 27, 1899 in Stoke-on-Trent , England , † December 24, 2005 ) was a British French-speaking novelist .

Life

In 1917 Lawton was drafted into military service and belonged first to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, then to the Cheshire Regiment, and finally to the East Yorkshires. In France he was arrested and imprisoned near Lille in 1918 . Ten days later he was sent to a temporary camp in Limburg an der Lahn and later to Minden . From there he returned to his hometown of Rhyl in December . There he served the military for another 18 months behind the desk.

Lawton then studied Latin and the literature of the French Renaissance at the Sorbonne in France and received his doctorate in 1926. He became professor of French and dean at the faculty of arts at the University of Southampton . He was later appointed Vice Chancellor of Sheffield University.

During World War II , Lawton was on a list of people the German Reich military had to kill if they were to invade Great Britain.

In 1999 he was awarded the French Order of the Legion of Honor for his services during the First World War . With him, one of the last people who was directly involved in the acts of war died.

literature

• "Handbook of French Renaissance Dramatic Theory" , Greenwood Press London 1973, ISBN 0-8371-6457-5

Web links

• Literature by and about Harold Lawton in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• "Professor Harold Lawton dies" (The Daily Telegraph December 26, 2005)