| Kenneth G. T. Webster | |
| Birth Name: | Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster |
| Birth Date: | 10 June 1871 |
| Birth Place: | Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Death Place: | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Occupation: | Literary scholar |
| Children: | 2 |
Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871 - 1942) was a Canadian-born American literary scholar.
Kenneth G. T. Webster was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia on June 10, 1871, and was educated at Dalhousie University, graduating in 1892.[1] He then took another undergraduate degree at Harvard University, followed by a master's and doctorate there, after which he was immediately offered a faculty position at the institution.[2] Influenced by Archibald MacMechan he became a medievalist and Arthurian scholar, with an interest in castles.[3]
He married Edith Forbes on August 15, 1903, and they had two children.[1]
Webster was also a restorer of historic houses. They include the Barnard Capen House from the early seventeenth century in Dorchester, Massachusetts, which he moved to its current site in Milton, Massachusetts in 1913,[4] [5] and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, which he bought in 1932 to save it from demolition, and is now a museum.[2] [6]
He died at Baker Memorial Hospital in Boston on October 31, 1942.[7]
Piers the Ploughman (1917) translator with William Alan Nielson
A Romance of Lancelot by Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven (1951)
A Study of Her Abductions (1951)