Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in
Renaissance English literature.
He is the
Rector
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of
Lincoln College, Oxford
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, having been appointed in 2012.
He was previously
Dean
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of the
Faculty of Arts and Humanities at
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
.
Woudhuysen was educated at
St. Paul's School, London and gained a
DPhil
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degree from the University of Oxford in 1981. His thesis title was ''Leicester's literary patronage: A study of the English court, 1578–1582''.
In 2010, Woudhuysen was elected a
Fellow of the British Academy
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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
References
External links
Lincoln College biographyFull text of his doctoral thesisvia Oxford Research Archive
Rectors of Lincoln College, Oxford
Academics of the University of Oxford
Living people
Academics of University College London
Fellows of the British Academy
1954 births
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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