Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill FRSL (19 April 1899[1] – 6 November 1980) was an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
[3] Coghill was educated at Haileybury, and read History and English at Exeter College, Oxford.
In 1968, he collaborated with Martin Starkie to co-write the West-End and Broadway musical Canterbury Tales.
[7] In a memoir, Reynolds Price writes: Nevill himself was born in 1899, served in the First War, married, fathered a daughter, then separated from his wife and lived a quietly homosexual life thereafter.
He later spoke to me of several romances with men, but he apparently never established a residence with any of them; and until his retirement from Oxford, he always lived in his college rooms.