Chauncey Brewster Tinker (October 22, 1876 – March 10, 1963) was a scholar of English Literature and Sterling Professor at Yale University.
In 1923, Tinker was made Sterling Professor of English Literature, and remained at the university until 1945.
At Yale, Tinker was instrumental in establishing a rare books collection, of which he was named the curator in 1931, and in founding the Elizabethan Club.
His early work, completed in collaboration with Albert Stanburrough Cook, focused on Old English literature, while the remainder of his career focused on eighteenth century English literary scholarship, including that of Samuel Johnson and his principal biographer, James Boswell.
[2] In his 2019 book, Possessed by Memory, Harold Bloom describes Tinker as “a scholar noted for the appearance of stigmata upon him during Passion Week.”[3] Tinker died on March 10, 1963, and is buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.