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Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill VC (25 January 1852 – 22 January 1879) was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill FRSL (19 April 1899 – 6 November 1980) was an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Nevill Coghill is one of Haileybury’s 16 former pupils who were awarded the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for gallantry. In the Zulu war of 1879 he was present at the battle of Isandhlwana where, at the end, he went to the aid of his fellow officer, Lieutenant Teignmouth Melvill who himself was attempting to save the Regimental ...
Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill, 24th Foot. “Lieutenant Melvill, of the 1st Battalion 24th Foot, on account of the gallant efforts made by him to save the Queen’s Colour of his Regiment after the disaster at Isandlwanha, and also Lieutenant Coghill, 1st Battalion 24th Foot, on account of his heroic conduct in endeavouring to save ...
23 de feb. de 2021 · Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill (19 April 1899-6 November 1980) was a fellow Inkling with J.R.R. Tolkien. He published a famous translation of the Canterbury Tales.
20 de ene. de 2014 · The great-great-great-great niece of one of the first posthumous recipients of the Victoria Cross is now keeping the memory of her ancestor alive by helping to commission a painting of the soldier...
Nevill Coghill served as Professor of English Literature at Oxford from 1957 till 1966. He made literary history by translating Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales" into Modern English couplets.
