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Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh was an English scholar, poet, and author. Raleigh was also a Cambridge Apostle. He was Professor of English Literature at Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in Aligarh in India (1885–87), Professor of Modern Literature at University College Liverpool (1890–1900), Regius Professor of English Language and Literature at Glasgow University (1900–1904), and in 1904 became the first holder of the Chair of English Literature at Oxford University. He was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1914–22). He was knighted in 1911.[