From Wikipedia Enid Elder Hancock Welsford (26 February 1892, Harrow on the Hill – 4 December 1981, Cambridge) was an English literary scholar, a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, and twice winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize – in 1928 and 1967. She is best known for her book The Fool: his Social and Literary History, published in 1935.

Life
Enid Elder Hancock Welsford was born in 1892 to Mildred L. Hancock, an artist, and Joseph W. W. Welsford, a teacher at Harrow School. She attended Conamur School in Kent, then took her undergraduate degree at University College, London in 1911. In 1914, she obtained first class degree with a distinction in Old English from Newnham College, Cambridge, where she was to remain for the rest of her career.[1]

Her book of poems The Seagulls and other poems, published in 1904, was appreciated as the work of a prodigy.[2]

Welsford was a practising Christian, a member of the Anglican Franciscans, and a member of the interdenominational Conference of University Teachers. Keen to promote and support women scholars, she co-founded and presided over the University Women's Research Club.[3]

After a stroke in 1978, Welsford struggled for several years. She died at her home in Cambridge, on 4 December 1981.[3]