[PW] ? RAL Fell
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Sat Apr 14 08:01:30 PDT 2007
The best I can tell you is that on the England & Wales, Birth Index: 1837-1983 there is a
Roland Arthur Lonsdale Fell born 1895 in Market Drayton, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire.
Otherwise, there is nothing other then the 1901 England census and his authorship. I can not find any mention of him after 1924 in any of my databases.
Bill Thayer <petworth at penelope.uchicago.edu> wrote:
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
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
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