Background
William Paton Ker was born on August 30, 1855, Glasgow City, United Kingdom. He was the son of William Ker, a merchant of Glasgow.
25 Colebrooke St, Glasgow G12 8HE, United Kingdom
Ker attended at Glasgow Academy.
University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
Ker attended the University of Glasgow.
Oxford OX1 3BJ, United Kingdom
Ker attended Balliol College in Oxford.
William Paton Ker was born on August 30, 1855, Glasgow City, United Kingdom. He was the son of William Ker, a merchant of Glasgow.
Ker attended Glasgow Academy, the University of Glasgow and Balliol College, Oxford.
In 1879, Ker was appointed to a fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford, and then, he became Professor of English Literature and History at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff in 1883. In 1889, Ker moved to University College London as Quain Professor.
Ker spent forty-four years as a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, where he was elected to the Chair of Poetry in 1920. He also taught at other universities in Britain, and at University of London he founded and directed the department of Scandinavian studies during World War I. Ker enjoyed mountain climbing and rowing, and was active until he died in 1923 while hiking in the Alps.
Ker’s numerous publications include Form and Style in Poetry: Lectures and Notes, a collection released about five years after Ker died.
(Translated Out of French by Sir John Bourchier, Lord Bern...)
1901(Presented to Dr. Furnivall in Honour of His Seventy-Fifth...)
1901Ker had a light touch and playful humor not often to be found in the expert. He gave glimpses which would certainly do what was the true object of a lecture - made the hearer or reader study the subject for himself.
Quotes from others about the person
“Ker is recognized by those capable of judging as having been the most learned and sound English scholar of this time. This posthumous volume will be a necessary item in the library of any student of English literature.”
“Ker was so eminent a judge of poetry, because poetry to him, and poetry alone, was the real world. There is evidence of it in every page of this volume.”
Mountain climbing, rowing