Don McKenzie - a biography
The following is largely extracted from the 1992 edition
of Who's Who
Professor Donald Francis McKenzie (FBA 1986)
Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism,
since 1989
&
Professorial Fellow, Pembroke College, since 1986
University of Oxford
Born 5 June 1931
Education
Victoria University College, Wellington, New Zealand
(BA 1954; DipJourn 1955; MA 1957)
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (PhD 1961)
MA, DPhil Oxford 1986
D. Litt. Victoria University of Wellington 1997
Public servant, New Zealand Post Office 1949-56
Various teaching positions
Victoria University College and Victoria University of Wellington,
1956-69
Professor of English Language and Literature, Victoria University
of Wellington, 1969-87, now Emeritus
Reader in Textual Criticism, Oxford University, 1986-89
Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1960-66
Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge, 1975-76
Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Oxford University, 1987-88
Panizzi Lecturer, British Library, 1985
Founder-manager, Wai-te-ata Press, 1961-86
President, Bibliographical Society, 1982-83 (Gold Medal, 1990)
Honorary Member
Bibliographical Society of America, 1986
Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1988
Corresponding FBA 1980
Honorary Fellow, Australian Academy of Humanities, 1988
Marc Fitch Gold Medal for Bibliography, 1988.
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