Raleigh, Walter Alexander (1861–1922)

English scholar. He became the first professor of English literature at Oxford University 1904. His books include The English Novel 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson 1895, Style 1897, Milton 1900, Wordsworth 1903, Shakespeare 1907, and Six Essays on Johnson 1910.

He was born in London and educated at Cambridge. After World War I he was appointed official historian of the Royal Air Force, but he completed only the first volume of The War in the Air 1922.