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| birth_name      = Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster
| birth_date      = {{Birth date|1871|06|10}}
| birth_place     = [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia|Yarmouth]], Nova Scotia, Canada
| death_date      = {{Death date and age|1942|10|31|1871|06|10}}
| death_place     = [[Boston]], Massachusetts, United States
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| occupation      = Literary scholar
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| spouse          = {{Marriage|Edith Forbes|August 15, 1903}}
| children        = 2
| education       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dalhousie University]]
* [[Harvard University]]
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'''Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster''' (1871&ndash;1942) was a Canadian-born American [[literary scholar]].
==Biography==
[[File:Kenneth Grant Tremayne Webster (1871–1942) c. 1893.png|thumb|left|125px|At Harvard, c. 1893]]
Kenneth G. T. Webster was born in [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia]] on June 10, 1871, and was educated at [[Dalhousie University]], graduating in 1892.<ref name=Secretary>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eITAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA302 |title=Class of 1893 Harvard College Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Report |place=Cambridge |pages=302–303 |date=1918 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He then took another undergraduate degree at [[Harvard University]], followed by a master's and [[doctorate]] there, after which he was immediately offered a [[teacher|faculty]] position at the institution.<ref name = Dal>{{cite web|url=http://www.library.dal.ca/DUASC/Collections/Castle/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706175240/http://www.library.dal.ca/DUASC/Collections/Castle/ |archive-date=2011-07-06 |url-status=dead |title=DUASC - Collections- Castle|accessdate=2016-06-20}}</ref> Influenced by [[Archibald MacMechan]] he became a [[medievalist]] and [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] scholar, with an interest in [[castle]]s.<ref name="collectionscanada">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/collectionsp-bin/colldisp/l=0/c=598|title=ARCHIVED - Search - Directory of Special Collections of Research Value in Canadian Libraries|publisher=collectionscanada.gc.ca|accessdate=2016-06-20}}</ref>
He married Edith Forbes on August 15, 1903, and they had two children.<ref name=Secretary/>
Webster was also a [[Building restoration|restorer]] of historic houses. They include the Barnard Capen House from the early seventeenth century in [[Dorchester, Massachusetts]], which he moved to its current site in [[Milton, Massachusetts]] in 1913,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landmarkservices.com/TheBernardCapenHouse.html |title=The Bernard Capen House |accessdate=2009-01-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207044403/http://www.landmarkservices.com/TheBernardCapenHouse.html |archivedate=2008-12-07 }}</ref><ref name="dorchesteratheneum">{{cite web|url=http://www.dorchesteratheneum.org/page.php?id=82|title=Dorchester Atheneum|publisher=dorchesteratheneum.org|accessdate=2016-06-20}}</ref> and the eighteenth century Ross-Thompson House in [[Shelburne, Nova Scotia]], which he bought in 1932 to save it from demolition, and is now a museum.<ref name = Dal/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.auracom.com/tnshelb/Shelburne3.htm |title=Shelburne, Nova Scotia |accessdate=2009-01-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516062612/http://www.auracom.com/tnshelb/Shelburne3.htm |archivedate=2008-05-16 }}</ref>
He died at [[Baker Memorial Hospital]] in Boston on October 31, 1942.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-kenneth-webster/124134776/ |title=Kenneth Webster |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=10 |date=1942-11-02 |access-date=2023-05-05 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==Works==
*''Chief British poets of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries'' (1916) editor with [[William Allan Neilson]]
*''[[Sir Gawain & The Green Knight]]: [[Piers the Ploughman]]'' (1917) translator with William Alan Nielson
*''[[Lanzelet]]: A Romance of Lancelot by [[Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven]]'' (1951)
** New print with additional notes by [[Roger Sherman Loomis]]. Columbia University Press, New York City 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-231-01833-3}}.
*''[[Guinevere]]: A Study of Her Abductions'' (1951)
==Notes==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060827165358/http://www.library.dal.ca/duasc/spcoll/castle2.htm Castle colleection at Dalhousie University]
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[[Category:Arthurian scholars]]
[[Category:1871 births]]
[[Category:1942 deaths]]
[[Category:Harvard University alumni]]
[[Category:Canadian emigrants to the United States]]
[[Category:Canadian literary critics]]
[[Category:Canadian people of British descent]]
[[Category:People from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia]]