Bonamy Dobrée, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBonamy Dobrée
British academic
Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1891
Date of Death: 03-Sep-1974
Profession: military personnel
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Bonamy Dobrée
- Bonamy Dobrée (2 February 1891 – 3 September 1974), British academic, was Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936 to 1955. Dobrée declared himself a Channel Islander, and was rather proud that both his Bonamy and Dobrée ancestors, bankers, had been mentioned by Thackeray.
- His father, who had the same name, was born in 1862 and married Violet Gordon Chase.
- He had two daughters before his son was born, then died at St.
- Moritz of tuberculosis on 30 August 1891.
- His grandfather was the Bonamy Dobrée who was Governor of the Bank of England in 1859-1861. After Haileybury and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Dobrée was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in 1910 but resigned in 1913.
- He rejoined in 1914, serving in France and the Middle East during World War I.
- In 1920 he took advantage of a tuition discount offered to veterans, taking his BA from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1921 and his MA in 1924.
- In 1925 he was appointed lecturer in London, and in 1926 Professor of English at the Egyptian University, Cairo, where he remained until 1929.
- In 1936 he was appointed Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, where he remained until his retirement. During World War II Dobrée served as a lieutenant-colonel in the ABCA organisation.
- He delivered the Clark Lectures at Cambridge in 1953, and was an Honorary Doctor of the University of Dijon.
- After retiring from Leeds he edited the Writers and their Work series of pamphlets for the British Council and the National Book League, and himself authored a pamphlet on Rudyard Kipling.
- He also lectured as Professor of Literature at Gresham College.
- He was the Lord Northcliffe Memorial Lecturer in 1963.
- He died in his Blackheath home. On 21 November 1913, Dobrée married Gladys May Mabel Brooke-Pechell (after her marriage called Valentine Dobrée; ca.
- 1893 - 14 May 1974), the daughter of Sir Alexander Brooke-Pechell, 7th Baronet, and had one daughter, Georgina, a well-known clarinetist (1930-2008). His first book was Restoration Comedy (1925); his largest, published 35 years later, was on the Early Eighteenth Century in the Oxford History of English Literature.
- His scholarship was focused within these limits; he also wrote a novel, a play, and poetry.
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