George Alfred Kolkhorst (1897-1958) was an Oxford don. 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Kolkhorst was a member of Exeter College, Oxford. He was appointed University Lecturer in Spanish in 1921 and Reader in Spanish in 1931, holding office until his death in 1958. College name Exeter College Collegium Exoniense Named after Walter de Stapledon, Bishop of Exeter Established 1314 Sister College Emmanuel College Rector Ms Frances Cairncross JCR President Octave Oppetit Undergraduates 299 MCR President Maria Sciara Graduates 150 Homepage Boatclub Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of... The University of Oxford (often called Oxford University), located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

His immortality is guaranteed by his friendship with John Betjeman, in whose verse autobiography Summoned by Bells Kolkhorst is affectionately recollected. Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August 1906–19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Whos Who as a poet and hack. He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian London. ... Book cover Summoned by Bells Summoned by Bells, the blank verse autobiography by John Betjeman, describes his life from his early memories of a middle class home in Edwardian Hampstead, London to his premature departure from Magdalen College, Oxford. ...

Bibliography

• Noel Annan, The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (London: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 138

Noel Gilroy Annan (December 25, 1916 – March 2000) was a British military intelligence officer, author, and academic. ...

External links

• Kolkhorst and Arteaga Exhibitions in Spanish 2005–6, Oxford University Gazette (17 November 2005)
• Judith Priestman, 'The dilettante and the dons', Oxford Today vol. 18, no. 3 (Trinity 2006)
• Charles Saumarez Smith, 'Always from the heart', The Observer (Sunday August 6, 2006)
• Tournai Tapestry, Maritime Museum, Portugal
• 'Yarnton: Manor and other estates', A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 12: Wootton Hundred (South) including Woodstock (1990), pp. 475-78
• Brooke Allen, 'Betjeman: a "whim of iron"', The New Criterion vol. 23, no. 7 (March 2005)
• R. M. Healey, 'Best Of British', Rare Book Review