Edward Hume Dudley Johnson ’34

Dudley Johnson, who taught English at Princeton for 34 years and retired in 1978 as the Holmes Professor Emeritus of Belles Lettres, died Dec. 9, 1995, of cancer.

By his own account, he lived in recent years "a rather secluded life in Princeton . . . indulging my literary tastes, cultivating a love of classical music, needlepoint, trying to keep abreast of affairs in this troubled worlds especially in the field of ecology . . . "

Specializing in Victorian literature and intellectual history, Dudley developed popular undergraduate and graduate courses and was one of the earliest recipients of the university's bicentennial preceptorships. He chaired the English department from 1968-74 and later turned to the study of British painting. His most important book was Paintings of the British Social Scene from Hogarth to Sickert.

A keen outdoorsman, Dudley spent summers at his "beloved retreat on the Bay of Fundy . . . an old sea captain's house in western Nova Scotia." He leaves his wife, the former Mary Laura Stance, whom he married in 1947; two sons, Alexander '72 and Geoffrey '73; a daughter, Victoria Pickering, and four grandchildren. To them we offer our sincere sympathies.

The Class of 1934