Alfred Ewert, FBA (14 July 1891 – 22 October 1969) was an American-born scholar of French language and literature who grew up in Canada and spent his career in England.
Graduating in 1912 with a first-class degree, he then studied at St John's College, Oxford, supported by a Rhodes Scholarship.
During the First World War, he served in the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France from 1915 until 1917, when he was commissioned into the Western Ontario Regiment.
[3][4] As well as being Senior Proctor at Oxford in 1943–44, Ewert launched and was general editor of the journal French Studies from 1947 to 1965.
His honours including a corresponding fellowship of the Medieval Academy of America, an honorary doctorate, the French Legion of Honour, election to the fellowship of the British Academy in 1957, and the dedication of a Festschrift: Studies in Medieval French (1961).