Francis Peabody Magoun

Francis Peabody Magoun, Jr. MC was one of the seminal figures in the study of medieval and English literature in the 20th century, a scholar of subjects as varied as soccer and ancient Germanic naming practices, and translator of numerous important texts. Though an American, he served in the British Royal Flying Corps as a lieutenant during World War I.

Magoun was born to a prosperous family in New York City. His parents were Francis Peabody Magoun and Jeanne C. Bartholow . He received his primary education at the St. Andrews School in Concord, Massachusetts, and at the Noble and Greenough School in Boston. He took his bachelors degree at Harvard in , and in February of that year signed on with the American Field Service. FromMarch Augusthe was a volunteer ambulance driver.

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