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'''John Anthony Burrow''', [[Fellow of the British Academy|FBA]] (3 August 1932 – 22 October 2017) was a British scholar of English literature. He was Winterstoke Professor of English at the [[University of Bristol]] from 1976 to 1998 and Dean of its Faculty of Arts from 1990 to 1993.
The only child of an accountant and a teacher, Burrow was born and raised in [[Loughton]], [[Essex]]. He matriculated at [[Christ Church, Oxford]] in 1950 to read English. After lecturing at [[King's College, London]] and for various Oxford colleges, he was elected a fellow of [[Jesus College, Oxford]] in 1961. In 1976, he moved to the University of Bristol, where he remained until his retirement in 1998.
Burrow was married to the novelist [[Diana Wynne Jones]].
== Sources ==
* https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/955/Memoirs_18-04-Burrow_0.pdf
* https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15633223.obituary-literary-scholar-prof-john-burrow/
* {{cite news |last1=Turville-Petre |first1=Thorlac |title=John Burrow obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/29/john-burrow-obituary |work=The Guardian |date=29 October 2017 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Meale |first1=Carol M. |title=In Memoriam: John Anthony Burrow (1932–2017) |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=2018 |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=249–251 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.53.3.0249 |s2cid=165984709 |id={{Project MUSE|698329}} }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Edwards |first1=A. S. G. |title=The Publications of John Burrow, 1997–2017 |journal=The Chaucer Review |date=July 2018 |volume=53 |issue=3 |pages=252–257 |doi=10.5325/chaucerrev.53.3.0252 |s2cid=165799662 }}
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