PRATT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-08 published
PRATT,
R.
John
In his 97th year, Robert John
PRATT died peacefully at his home,
''The Hermitage'', Dorval. He so often sang and said ''You'll
Get Used To It''. He is survived by his sons, Robin of Dorval
and John of Hatley; by his grandchildren, Graham, Thea, and Jessie,
all of Montreal; Robert (Nicky) of Vancouver, British Columbia,
Julia PETERS
(Tim) of Niagara Falls, New York, and Jennifer
PETERS
(Kirby) of Toronto, Ontario; and by his great grandchildren,
Jessica, Anthony, and Gregory; Elena and Elizabeth; and Eliza.
Resting at J.J. Cardinal Funeral Home, 560 Pr. Lakeshore Dr.,
Dorval Tel: 514-631-1511. Visitation Wednesday, April 9, from
7 to 9 p.m. Funeral Service at St-Veronica's Church, 1300 Carson,
Dorval on Thursday, April 10 at 11 a.m. Memorial donations would
be appreciated to The St. Patrick's Foundation c/o St. Patrick's
Square, 6767 Cote St. Luc, Montreal, Qc. H4V 2Z6 or to the charity
of your choice.
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PRATT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-26 published
CHEADLE,
Eric
Bruce,
February 5, 1931-August 24, 2003
Piper, Teacher, Sailor, died peacefully at his home in Owen Sound
surrounded by his family on Sunday, August 24, 2003 in his 73rd
year. He will be forever missed by his wife
Audrey (née
BUDGEON,)
children Norman of Sudbury, Dianne and her husband Bruce
DEVEREUX
of Courtenay, British Columbia, Susan and her husband Brad
CRAIG
of Owen Sound, and Bruce and Karen of Ottawa and grandchildren
Will, Robin and Ben
HARRIS,
Dylan,
Brodie and Nick
CRAIG, Wilder
LEDUC,
Sam and Arden
CHEADLE, Keiran and Chance
DEVEREUX and
his great-grand_son Theo. Predeceased by his daughter Molly
CHEADLE.
Visitation will be held at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral
Home on Friday, August 29, 2003 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Memorial
service will be held at St. George's Anglican Church on Saturday,
August 30, 2003 at 2: 00 p.m. Archdeacon Christopher
PRATT officiating.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations may be made
to the charity of your choice.
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PRATT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-16 published
Jerome Hamilton
BUCKLEY
Husband, father, professor. Born August 30, 1917, in Toronto.
Died January 28 in Cambridge, Massachusetts., of natural causes,
aged 85.
By Margaret
ATWOOD and David
STAINES,
Page
A24
Every American Thanksgiving, Jerry and Elizabeth Buckley would
invite at least one of Terry's graduate students to their home
in Belmont, Massachusetts., for the customary turkey dinner.
(In the 1960s, the graduate student was Margaret
ATWOOD; in the
'70s, David
STAINES.)
There, surrounded by their three children,
Nicholas, Victoria, and Eleanor, and other guests, Jerry would
regale everyone with tales of Puritan ancestors, though they
were not "his" ancestors both Jerry and Elizabeth were born and
raised in Toronto, and they were distinctly Canadian in their
gracious manners, their widespread generosity, and their affections.
At a large institution such as Harvard, Jerry stood out for his
kindness and humanity.
Jerry attended Humberside Collegiate Institute and then Victoria
College in the University of Toronto, where his courses included
Elizabethan literature offered by Northrop
FRYE and Shakespeare
offered by E. J.
PRATT. As a young poet and critic, he reviewed
new works by Robinson Jeffers and Virginia Woolf, and won a prize
for an essay titled New Techniques in Contemporary Fiction. Graduating
with a B.A. in 1939, he chose Harvard Graduate School, obtaining
his PhD in 1942. On June 19, 1943, in Toronto, he married Elizabeth
ADAM/ADAMS, his confidante and soul mate.
University teaching posts were thin on the ground in Canada during
the Second World War. Jerry used to describe his one job interview
with a Canadian university: They were less interested in his
a academic credentials, he said, than in whether he was a Christian
and whether he drank. If he did the latter, they made it clear
that he must do it with the curtains closed so as not to corrupt
the students. He took a job in the United States.
His teaching career took him to the University of Wisconsin,
where he rose from instructor in 1942 to full professor in 1954
to Columbia University from 1954 until 1961; and
to Harvard University,
where he taught for 26 years 1987. Named Gurney Professor of
English Literature in 1975, in this distinguished chair he followed
Douglas BUSH and
B.
J.
Whiting;
BUSH, another ex-Canadian, welcomed
Jerry BUCKLEY to Harvard, as Jerry recollected, "with open arrns...
filled with theses."
A Harvard seminar on Victorian critics led by Howard Mumford
Jones prodded Buckley's interest in William Ernest Henley, and
his dissertation on Henley became his first published book, William
Ernest Henley: A Study in the Counter-Decadence of the Nineties
(1945). In 1951 he secured his reputation as a major Victorianist
with The Victorian Temper, and in 1960 he re-established Tennyson's
stature in literary studies with his Tennyson: The Growth of
a Poet. The rise of Victorian studies owes very much to his dedicated
scholarship and his inspiring leadership.
He was passionately devoted to his subject, so much so that he
often seemed to become the incarnation of it. Former students
remember with affection riveting oral performances of his favourite
authors, such as Dickens. Striding across the room, long arms
waving, he would "become" Mr. Micawber or Ebenezer Scrooge. His
performances would be interspersed with strange bits of gossip,
which he would also act out, becoming Tennyson at an advanced
age, creeping around behind an alarmed woman at a garden party
to inform her that her stays were creaking, or reciting with
verve and relish one of Edward Lear's parodies of his beloved
Tennyson. Many of Terry's former graduate students were at his
funeral to pay tribute to a superb humanist and an equally superb
friend.
Margaret ATWOOD and David
STAINES were among Jerry
BUCKLEY's
graduate students.
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