Nevill Coghill

For the recipient of the Victoria Cross, see Nevill Coghill (VC).

Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill
Born(1899-04-19)19 April 1899
Died6 November 1980(1980-11-06) (aged 81)
CitizenshipAnglo-Irish
OccupationLinguistic
Known forModern-English Version
FatherEgerton Coghill
RelativesNevill Coghill (VC) (uncle); Ambrose Coghill (brother)
Academic background
EducationHaileybury
Alma materExeter College Oxford
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford Royal Field Artillery

Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer Coghill FRSL (19 April 1899 – 6 November 1980) was an Anglo-Irish literary scholar, known especially for his modern-English version of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. He was an associate of the literary discussion group the "Inklings", which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

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