Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies (1913-1995), born in Thamesville, Ontario, the son of a newspaperman who became a senator, studied at Queen's and then at Oxford and worked from 1938 to 1940 at the Old Vic theatre in London. Returning home, he ran the Peterborough Examiner for some twenty years, wrote plays and columns, then taught at the University of Toronto and became the first master of Massey College, opened in 1963. A great reader of Jung, he died in Orangeville, Ontario.

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