Austin Gill, CBE (3 September 1906 – 21 March 1990) was a British scholar of the French language and culture.
Gill's family was of Irish extraction, but he was born in Stockport, England, which is just southeast of Manchester proper.
[1] In 1945 Gill left the British Council, and was hired at Magdalen College, Oxford, as a tutor in modern languages.
That year he returned to Magdalen College where he continued to teach until 1966, when he accepted the Marshall Chair of French at the University of Glasgow.
Gill's speciality was in French literature of the 19th century notably poetry, and especially that of Stéphane Mallarmé.