Educator.
Born at Port Hope, Ontario on 27 September 1895, son of John Arthur Woodhouse and Kate Hogg, he was educated at the University of Toronto, from which he graduated in 1919, and at Harvard, where he received an MA degree in 1923. He was an assistant professor of English at the University of Manitoba from 1923 to 1929. He then returned to the University of Toronto (University College), where he served as editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly from 1933 to 1945. He wrote extensively, his best-known work being Puritanism and Liberty (1938), a study of Christian political idealism in seventeenth-century England. He was considered an authority on English poet John Milton. He was a founding member of the Humanities Research Council of Canada and Vice-President of the Royal Society of Canada. Given seven honorary degrees by Canadian universities, he retired in June 1964 and died at Toronto, Ontario on 31 October 1964.
Ontario birth registration, Ancestry.
“Tribue to a scholar,” Winnipeg Free Press, 25 July 1964, page 62.
“Authority on Milton dead at 69,” Winnipeg Free Press, 4 November 1964, page 5.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography by John M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 March 2023
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