[PW] ? RAL Fell

[Bill Thayer]

Thanks in advance for any help, especially since I am not a list member.

I am looking for the year of death of the British 
(probably) or American classical scholar Roland 
Arthur Lonsdale Fell, usually referred to as 
R.A.L. Fell. I've done every websearch I could 
think of, including in online web catalogs and on 
JSTOR; and have gone to the Reference Librarian 
of a large University known for its scholarly 
reputation: who was very coöperative but came up 
empty. I also created a stub article in Wikipedia 
in the hopes that someone would follow and 
complete the information; no one has bit yet. 
Finally, I sent this same e-mail to Stumpers List 
<stumpers-l at listserv.dom.edu> on Feb. 11th, but 
I guess it Fell between the cracks.

RAL Fell was the author of Etruria and Rome 
(Cambridge, 1924), an important work on the 
Etruscan civilization, and co-author with Thomas 
Ashby of a widely cited paper, The Via Flaminia 
(JRS 11:125-190, 1921). It is this paper I wish 
to reproduce on my website if it is in the public 
domain, i.e., if he died before 1937, whence my 
question.

He is very likely listed in a work to which 
I don't have access, Classical Scholarship: A 
Biographical Encyclopedia (New York and London 
1990).

By way of (possibly meagre) payback, I myself am 
a very good source of information on central 
Italy, especially Umbria, which I've crisscrossed 
on foot for a dozen years and about 2000 km; and 
to a less extent, ancient Rome. Those are the 
main focuses of my website, currently 5000+ pages.

Thanx again for any help.
-- 

Bill Thayer
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/home.html