Arthur Clare Cawley was an English literature

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 academic. He was foundation professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

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. The university currently offers a post-graduate scholarship in his name.

In 1939 he and fellow UCL

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 postgraduate student Winifred Cawley

Winifred Cawley

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 were married. Cawley's 1953 PhD

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 thesis

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 at London University was a scholarly edition of six of the thirty-six Wakefield Pageants

Wakefield Mystery Plays

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He was appointed the inaugural Darnell Professorship of English at the University of Queensland

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 in 1958..
A noted Mediaevalist, Cawley has commentated and edited numerous works including "Everyman", mediaeval miracle plays, the Canterbury Tales, and the Wakefield Mystery Plays.

Arthur Clare Cawley died in 1993.