Biography

Alfred John Wyatt studied at Hallam Hall, Clevedon, and Regent's Park College before matriculating at Christ's College in 1889. He graduated in 1891 alone in the first class of the Medieval and Modern Languages Tripos, with a distinction in English. The next year he gained a Winchester Reading Prize and served as an examiner in Cambridge, London and at the University of Wales. He was appointed as Lecturer in Medieval and Modern Languages at Downing College in c.1906 and was associated with the University Correspondence College in Cambridge for 47 years as Tutor. He published several books on Anglo-Saxon and early English literature, including Beowulf. He died on 23 July 1935.