Eric McCormick

Eric Hall McCormick (17 June 1906 – 23 March 1995) was a New Zealand teacher, critic, historian, university lecturer and biographer.

He continued his studies at Victoria while teaching at rural schools near Nelson, eventually graduating Master of Arts in English and Latin.

[2] The historian Keith Sinclair later described it as "a work of such discrimination and scholarship as at once to establish the author as the first of his countrymen entitled to be called critic".

He rose to the rank of captain, and on his return to New Zealand in 1945 he was appointed chief war archivist.

[1] Later in the 1950s he became an independent scholar, living frugally in the Auckland suburb of Green Bay with his sister Myra.