Background
Chambers Edmund Kerchever was born on the 16th of March, 1866 in West Ilsley, Berkshire, United Kingdom. He was the son of thу Reverend William Chambers, a curate, and his wife, Anna Heathcote.
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Edmund Kerchever Chambers studied at Marlborough College.
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Edmund Kerchever Chambers studied at Corpus Christi College in Oxford.
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Chambers Edmund Kerchever was born on the 16th of March, 1866 in West Ilsley, Berkshire, United Kingdom. He was the son of thу Reverend William Chambers, a curate, and his wife, Anna Heathcote.
Edmund Kerchever Chambers studied at Marlborough College and Corpus Christi College in Oxford.
Later in life, Chamber received a Doctor of Letters degree from Durham in 1922 and Oxford in 1939.
Edmund Kerchever Chambers began his career at the National Education Department, where he worked in 1893. He served under Sir Robert Morant as a permanent secretary to the newly constituted Board of Education from 1903. In 1921, he became the second secretary and was retired in 1926.
During his years as a civil servant, Chambers did much higher journalism and edited many editions of the English classics, especially Shakespeare. He also was the First President of the Malone Society from 1906 to 1939.
As the author, Kerchever produced a lot of works, among them are The History and Motives of Literary Forgeries: Being the Chancellor's English Essay for 1891 in 1891, The Mediaeval Stage in 1903, Shakespearean Gleanings in 1941, English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages in 1945, Matthew Arnold in 1947. However, Chambers's greatest work was The Elizabethan Stage, a great examination of the history and conditions of English theatre in the medieval and Renaissance periods.
(A biographical study of Coleridge's character and persona...)
1938(Being the Chancellor's English Essay for 1891)
1891In 1924, E. K. Chambers was elected a fellow of the British Academy.
Edmund Kerchever Chambers was married to Eleanor Christabel Bowman.