Background
Pottle, Frederick Albert was born on August 3, 1897 in Lovell, Maine, United States. Son of Fred LeRoy and Annette Wardwell (Kemp) Pottle.
Pottle, Frederick Albert was born on August 3, 1897 in Lovell, Maine, United States. Son of Fred LeRoy and Annette Wardwell (Kemp) Pottle.
AB summa cum laude, Colby College, 1917. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Colby College, 1941. AM, Yale University, 1921.
Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1925. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Glasgow, 1936. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Rutgers University, 1951.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Northwestern University, 1967.
Assistant Professor of English, U. N.H., 1921-1923; instructor in English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1925-1926; assistant professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1926-1930; professor, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1930-1966; emeritus, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1966-1987; Emily Sanford Professor of English literature, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1942-1944; Sterling Professor of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1944-1946; public orator, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1942, 46. Former chancellor Academy American Poets.
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Trustee Colby College, 1932-1959, 66-87. Former trustee General Theological Seminary Fellow Davenport College. Member Joint Commission on Holy Matrimony Episcopalian Church, 1940-1946.
Surgical assistant evacuation hospital American Expeditionary Forces, 1917-1919. Fellow International Institute Arts and Letters. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, Connecticut Academy Arts and Sciences (president 1967-1968), American Philosophical Society (John F. Lewis prize 1974), Provincial Utrechtsch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschnappen, Guild of Scholars, Modern Language Association, Medieval Academy, Johnson Society Lichfield, England (president 1974), Grolier Club, Ends of the Earth Club (New York City), Elizabethan Club (New Haven), Johnson Club, Johnson Club of London, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Tau Omega.
Married Marion Isabel Starbird, September 9, 1920. Children: Annette (deceased), Christopher, Samuel Heald.