List of Fellows of the British Academy elected in the 1910s

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The British Academy consists of world-leading scholars and researchers in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, it elects fellows to its membership. The following were elected in the 1910s.

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences and a funding body for research projects across the United Kingdom. The academy is a self-governing and independent registered charity, based at 10–11 Carlton House Terrace in London.

1910

Andrew Cecil Bradley, was an English literary scholar, best remembered for his work on Shakespeare.

George Gilbert Aimé Murray, was an Australian-born British classical scholar and public intellectual, with connections in many spheres. He was an outstanding scholar of the language and culture of Ancient Greece, perhaps the leading authority in the first half of the twentieth century. He is the basis for the character of Adolphus Cusins in his friend George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara, and also appears as the chorus figure in Tony Harrison's play Fram.

Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer, writer and critic.

1911

Professor George Saintsbury
Professor A. E. Taylor
Professor T. F. Tout

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, FBA, was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur.

Alfred Edward Taylor was a British idealist philosopher most famous for his contributions to the philosophy of idealism in his writings on metaphysics, the philosophy of religion, moral philosophy, and the scholarship of Plato. He was a fellow of the British Academy (1911) and president of the Aristotelian Society from 1928 to 1929. At Oxford he was made an honorary fellow of New College in 1931. In an age of universal upheaval and strife, he was a notable defender of Idealism in the Anglo-Saxon world.

1912

No appointments were made in 1912.

1913

Samuel Alexander Australian-born British philosopher

Samuel Alexander, was an Australian-born British philosopher. He was the first Jewish fellow of an Oxbridge college.

Arthur Surridge Hunt English papyrologist

Arthur Surridge Hunt, FBA was an English papyrologist.

Sir George Macdonald was a British archaeologist and numismatist who studied the Antonine Wall.

1914

Edmond George Petty-Fitzmaurice, 1st Baron Fitzmaurice, PC, styled Lord Edmond FitzMaurice from 1863 to 1906, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1883 to 1885 and again from 1905 to 1908, when he entered the cabinet as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under H. H. Asquith. However, illness forced him to resign the following year.

John William Mackail was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system.

Richard Burdon Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane, was an influential British Liberal and later Labour imperialist politician, lawyer and philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905 and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" of the British Army were implemented. Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in 1911, he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915, when he was forced to resign because of false allegations of German sympathies. He later joined the Labour Party and once again served as Lord Chancellor in 1924 in the first ever Labour administration. Apart from his legal and political careers, Haldane was also an influential writer on philosophy, in recognition of which he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1914.

1915

Sir Henry Stuart Jones, FBA was a British academic and fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford, where he held an appointment from 1920 to 1927 as Camden Professor of Ancient History. Originally, Stuart was his second forename, but he and his wife generally prefixed it to their surname, and he was knighted in 1933 under the name Stuart-Jones.

David Samuel Margoliouth, FBA was an English orientalist. He was briefly active as a priest in the Church of England. He was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1889 to 1937.

William Robert Scott, FBA was a political economist who was Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow from 1915 to 1940.

1916

Professor A. C. Clark
Dr L. R. Farnell
Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith
Professor A. A. Bevan
Professor John Burnet

1917

Sir George A. Grierson, OM, KCIE
Dr G. F. Hill, CB
Professor James Smith Reid
Rt Rev. Bishop Ryle, KCVO

1918

Professor R. Seymour Conway
Professor G. E. Moore

1919

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References

The names are from the list of fellows, alive and dead, in Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xviii (1932), pp. vii–x.

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