William Walsh (academic)

William Walsh (23 February 1916 – 23 June 1996)[1] was Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 1983 from the University of Leeds Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1965 to 1967.[2] He graduated in English from Downing College, Cambridge in 1943 and worked as a schoolmaster before becoming, in 1951, a lecturer in Education at Keele University (at the time the University College of North Staffordshire). After a similar post at the University of Edinburgh,[3] he became in 1957 the University of Leeds Professor and Head of the Department of Education.[4]

In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Commonwealth Literature in the School of English at Leeds.[5] Following the death in September 1981 of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Lord Boyle of Handsworth, Professor of Education and subsequently Professor of Commonwealth Literature at the University of Leeds and the Acting Vice-Chancellor from 1981 to 1983.

He was succeeded in 1983 by Edward Parkes. Walsh was awarded in 1984 the University's honoris causa degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD).[6] He gave the 1983 John Keats Memorial Lecture.[7] He married May Watson in 1945 and they had a son and daughter. He died in 1996 in Leeds.

References
  1. "Obituary: Professor William Walsh". The Independent. 13 July 1996. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  2. Gold, Ann (18 June 1991). Edward Boyle: His life by his friends. Springer. ISBN 9781349111039.
  3. "William Henry Walsh (1913-1986) - Our History". ourhistory.is.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  4. "Professor William Walsh (1916–1996), MA, FRSA, Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds (1981–1983) | Art UK". www.artuk.org. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  5. Jones, Joseph (1975). "Review of Readings in Commonwealth Literature". Research in African Literatures. 6 (1): 95–98. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 3818527.
  6. "William D. Walsh, 1930-2013". Fordham Newsroom. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
  7. Walsh, W (1984). "John Keats Memorial Lecture: The Keatsian paradox: the hectic and the healthy". Ann R Coll Surg Engl. 66 (2): 139–44. PMC 2492397. PMID 6367610.


Academic offices
Preceded by
Edward Boyle		 (Acting) Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds
1981-1983		 Succeeded by
Edward Parkes


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