John Robert Wahl
John Robert Wahl (19**-19**) was an academic and lecturer,
More generally known as J.R. Wahl or Robert Wahl
Biography
A descendent of the 1820 Settlers, he was born in **, the son of a well known Cape Town teacher,
He studied at Rhodes University and at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship and
Wahl became a lecturer in English at Rhodes University and later professor and head of the English Department at the University of the Orange Free State in Bloemfontein.
He married Joan Cicely Haworth, the daughter of Professor Haworth of Rhodes University, in the Anglican Cathedral of St Andrew and St May, Grahamstown, on 2 July, 1955. She too would became an English lecturer in Grahamstown and Bloemfontein.
Tragically Wahl died by his own hand in Bloemfontein in 1969/70.
Contribution to theatre, film, media and performance
Sources
https://www.1820settlers.com/genealogy/settlerbrowsemarrs.php?name=WAHL&first=
Most widely held works by John Robert Wahl, WorldCat[1]
Michael Green. 2004. Around and about: Memoirs of a South African Newspaperman. New Africa Books, 2004 [2]
