- CA QUA00735
- Person
- 1924 -2001
Derek F. Crawley was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1n 1924, where he attended high school. He received his bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oxford University; and his doctorate from Northwestern University in Evanston (Chicago), Illinois, in Renaissance drama. He came to Queen's University in Kingston in the 1960's, teaching in the Department of English for the next thirty years. During his time in an academic setting, he was engaged in teaching undergraduate and graduate students alike, serving on numeorus University and community committees, and publishing prolifically in the fields of English Renaaissance and Shakesperean studies, and Canadian Literature. His untimely death on 10 July 2001, in Kingston, Ontario, left his wife and three sons.