Obituary of Sir Israel Gollancz… (1930)
“ Sir Israel Gollancz died at his home at Shoot-up-hill, N.W., yesterday in his 67th year. He had been Professor of English Language and Literature in the University of London since 1905, and secretary of the British Academy since its foundation in 1902. He was widely known as an Early and Middle English scholar, and was the editor of several text of the period. He had published also works of Shakespearian criticism. He was an active as a member of various learned societies, having been chairman of the Shakespeare Association and from 1910 to 1922 president of the Philological Society ”
