Person Record
Metadata
Name |
Pottle, Frederick Albert (1897- 1987) |
Born |
Aug 3, 1897 |
Birthplace |
Center Lovell, ME |
Places of Residence |
Otisfield, ME Oxford, ME (Summer resident) |
Father |
Roy Pottle |
Mother |
Nettie (Kemp) Pottle |
Education |
Colby College 1917 Yale Univ. MA , PhD 1925 |
Notes |
Married in 1920 |
Occupation |
Scholar and Biographer Taught history, civics and chemistry at Deering High School Taught public speaking, debate and drama at Univ of New Hamphire Sterling Professor of English and head of the English Dept. at Yale Univ. (41 years) Trustee of Colby College 1932-1959 Chairman emeritus of the editorial committee of the Yale Boswell Papers at the time of his death |
Spouse |
Marion Isabel (Starbird) Pottle |
Deceased |
May 23, 1987 |
Deceased Where |
New Haven, CT |
Titles & honors |
Recognized as the foremost authority on James Boswell Served with an evacuation hospital unit in France during WW I Recipient of Colby College's first Distinguished Alumni Award in 1967 |
Publications |
"James Boswell, The Earlier Years 1740-1769" 1966 (a contender for the Pulitzer Prize |
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