biography
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James, M(ontague) R(hodes)
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| lived:
| (1862–1936)
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| biography:
| Scholar and writer, born in Goodnestone, Kent, SE England, UK. He studied at Cambridge, where he was elected a fellow of King's College (1887). He was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum (1894–1908), provost of King's College (1905–18), and Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge (1913–15). He catalogued the manuscripts of every Cambridge college, Aberdeen University, and several London libraries, and wrote on the Apocrypha, and the art and literature of the Middle Ages. Outside the academic world he is best remembered as a writer of ghost stories, such as Ghost Stories of an Antiquary (1904–11) and Twelve Mediaeval Ghost Stories (1922). |
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