on 21 January 1954 at Beer, Devon, at the age of 87. Chambers was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1912, KBE in 1925. In 1924, he was elected fellow of the British Academy and his biography Samuel Taylor Coleridge was awarded the 1938 James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He was a member of the Athenæum. Works The History and Motives of Literary Forgeries (1891) Poems of John Donne (1896, editor) The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1898, editor) The Mediaeval Stage (2 volumes, 1903); Vol. I Vol. II Early English Lyrics (1907, editor) Carmina Argentea (1918, poems) The Elizabethan Stage (4 volumes, 1923); Vol. I Vol. II Vol. III Vol. IV Shakespeare: A Survey (1925) Arthur of Britain (1927) William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (2 volumes; 1930) Vol. I The Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse (1932, editor) The English Folk-play (1933) Sir Henry Lee (1936) Eynsham Under the Monks (1936) Sir Thomas Wyatt and Some Collected Studies (1937) Samuel Taylor Coleridge: a biographical study (1938) Shakespearean Gleanings (1941) English Literature at the Close of the Middle Ages (1945) Matthew Arnold (1947). References Further reading Wilson, John Dover. "Obituary of Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers 1866–1954." Proceedings of the British Academy 42 (1956). External links 1866 births 1954 deaths People from West Berkshire District People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Historians of theatre Shakespearean scholars Companions of the Order of the Bath People from Eynsham Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients Arthurian scholars Fellows of the British Academy Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America British literary critics