Henry Ruxton Woudhuysen, (born 24 October 1954), is a British academic specialising in Renaissance English literature. He is the Rector of

Lincoln College, Oxford Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford. Lincoln was founded in 1427 by Richard Fleming, th ...

, having been appointed in 2012. He was previously

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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

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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

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

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External links

Lincoln College biography

Full text of his doctoral thesis
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