Steele, A. J. (Alan John), 1916-2004

found: Myth and legend in French literature, 1982:t.p. (A.J. Steele) p. 243 (Alan John Steele; Alan Steele)

found: French studies, April 2005:pp. 287-288 (obituary: A.J. Steele (1916-2004); Alan John Steele; died on 6 March 2004; spent academic career in his alma mater, the University of Edinburgh; born in 1916, a son of the manse, at Belshill [i.e. Bellshill], in Lanarkshire; had his secondary education at Blyth, in Northumberland; returned to Scotland in 1934, graduated four years later in French Language and Literature; awarded a Vans Dunlop Scholarship which took him to Paris to begin research; served during the war, first, in the Friends Ambulance Service; became a lecturer at Edinburgh (in 1947), Professor of French Literature (in 1961), Dean of his Faculty (1968-71), and Professor of French (in 1972); first inclination had been for historical language study, but after the war his interest turned to poetry; retired in 1980; continued to promote French studies; worked as an elder of Greyfriars Kirk, writing its history and a number of short biographical studies of notable Scottish presbyterian churchmen)