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*[http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/weekly/171105/grnt.htm#1Ref Kolkhorst and Arteaga Exhibitions in Spanish 2005–6], ''[[Oxford University Gazette]]'' (17 November 2005) |
*[http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2005-6/weekly/171105/grnt.htm#1Ref Kolkhorst and Arteaga Exhibitions in Spanish 2005–6], ''[[Oxford University Gazette]]'' (17 November 2005) |
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*[http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2005-06/v18n3/05.shtml Judith Priestman, 'The dilettante and the dons'], ''[[Oxford Today]]'' vol. 18, no. 3 (Trinity 2006) |
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060906065317/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2005-06/v18n3/05.shtml Judith Priestman, 'The dilettante and the dons'], ''[[Oxford Today]]'' vol. 18, no. 3 (Trinity 2006) |
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*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,1837919,00.html Charles Saumarez Smith, 'Always from the heart'], ''[[The Observer]]'' (Sunday August 6, 2006) |
*[http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,,1837919,00.html Charles Saumarez Smith, 'Always from the heart'], ''[[The Observer]]'' (Sunday August 6, 2006) |
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*[http://www.museumarinha.pt/museu/eng/templates/canal.aspx?idc=172&linkIdc=1&idsc=173&changeColor= Tournai Tapestry], Maritime Museum, Portugal |
*[http://www.museumarinha.pt/museu/eng/templates/canal.aspx?idc=172&linkIdc=1&idsc=173&changeColor= Tournai Tapestry], Maritime Museum, Portugal |
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George Alfred ('Colonel') Kolkhorst (1897–1958) was an Oxford don, a lecturer and Reader in Spanish.
Life
Kolkhorst was the son of an engineer, and was brought up in Chile. His family then moved to Portugal. In the later part of World War I he was in Galicia, Spain on official work.[1]
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. He used to wear a cube of sugar on a string around his neck "to sweeten my conversation", and was universally known among Oxford undergraduates as "Colonel" Kolkhorst — allegedly because he looked and behaved so utterly unlike a colonel.[2]
His friendship with John Betjeman led to his inclusion in Summoned by Bells, Betjeman's verse autobiography.
References
- Noel Annan, The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses (London: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 138.
Notes
- ^ "P. E. Russell, George Alfred Kolkhorst, 1897–1958". Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. 36: 51–52. doi:10.1080/1475382592000336051.
- ^ John Betjeman: Summoned by Bells, p.84 says: "We called you 'Colonel' just because you were,/Though tall, so little like one."
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. 475–478
- 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
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