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Name: SCOUTEN, Arthur Hawley

Nee: son of Oren Scouten

Birth Date: 15.2.1910 Kambui, Ruiru

Death Date: 30.4.1995 St Germain en Laye, Ile de France

First Date: 1912

Profession: Member of English Faculty at Louisiana State Univ.

Area: Kericho

Married: 1. In Baton Rouge 6 June 1940 Josephine Rebecca Bradshaw; 2. Annick Henriette Rouet

Children: Elle; Lee; Margaret; another

Book Reference: Red Book 1912, North

School: Wheaton College, Colgate Univ., Louisiana State Univ.

General Information:

Red Book 1912 - A.H. Scouten - Kericho
Arthur Hawley Scouten, born 1910, son of Oren Scouten
UK Foreign and Overseas Registers for birth
Had an obit. in NY Times 
His papers are in Emory Univ.
https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/3362 Arthur Hawley Scouten, history educator and author, was born February 15, 1910 in Kapropita, Kenya, son of Oren and Margaret Fraser Scouten. The Scouten family moved to the United States in 1920. Scouten attended Louisiana State University (B.A., 1935; M. A., 1938; Ph.D., 1942). He began his teaching career at Texas A. and M. College (Instructor, 1942-1943), and went on to teach at the University of Texas-Austin (Instructor, 1943-1946), Auburn University(Assistant Professor, 1946-1947), the University of Pennsylvania (Assistant Professor and Professor, 1947-1980; Professor Emeritus, 1980- ), University of Warwick, England (Visiting Professor, 1973), University of Delaware (Distinguished Visiting Professor, 1981), and American College in Paris (Visiting Professor, 1986).
Scouten edited several publications including Ten English Farces (edited with Leo Hughes; Austin: University of Texas Press, 1948); two volumes of The London Stage: 1660-1800, Part Three (editor, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1968- ), A Bibliography of the Writings of Jonathan Swift, Second Edition (edited with Herman Teerink; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1963); The London Stage: 1660-1800, Part 1, Country Gentleman by Sir Robert Howard and George Villiers (edited with R. D. Hume; London: Dent, 1976); The Revels History of Drama in English, Volume 5: 1660-1750 (edited with J. Loftis, R. Southern, and M. Jones; 1976); and The Poetry of Jonathan Swift (Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1981). He also served as a consultant for MLA (1947-1973), Philol Quarterly (1960-1975), Restoration (1977-1980), and 18th Century Life (1974- ). 
Honors received by Scouten include fellowships from the Ford Foundation (1953-1954), the Guggenheim Foundation (1954-1955), the Folger Shakespeare Library (1955), and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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