TRAPNELL, William Holmes^{[1, 2]}

1931 - 2017  (85 years)

• Name	TRAPNELL, William Holmes
  Birth	16 Sep 1931	Richmond VA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Education	BS from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia in 1954, an MA in French from Middlebury College 1962, and a PhD in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967.  [2]
  Obituary	From Indiana University web obit: William H. Trapnell, Professor Emeritus of French Literature, passed away on January 10, 2017, at the age of 85. He earned a BS from Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia in 1954, an MA in French from Middlebury College in 1962, and a PhD in French from the University of Pittsburgh in 1967. After teaching for two years at Brown University, he joined the faculty of the Department of French & Italian at Indiana University in 1969 and taught at IUB until his retirement in 1997. He was the recipient of several prestigious research fellowships including from the Mellon (1963-65), Fulbright (1965-66) and Lilly (1986-87) foundations. Trapnell was a distinguished scholar of the French and British Enlightenments. One of his main research interests was the great 18th-century playwright and novelist, Marivaux. His pioneering dissertation explored the relations between Marivaux’s journalistic works, novels and theater. Later in his career, he authored another major study on the canonical playwright, Eavesdropping in Marivaux (1987). Professor Trapnell also made key contributions to Voltaire studies: Voltaire and his Portable Dictionary (1972), Voltaire and the Eucharist (1981), Christ and his “Associates” in Voltairian Polemic: An Assault on the Trinity and the two Natures (1982). And he published two important books illustrating his interest in Enlightenment philosophy on both sides of the Channel, The Treatment of Christian Doctrine by Philosophers of the Natural Light from Descartes to Berkeley (1988), and a study on a little-known English theologian, Thomas Woolston, Madman and Deist? (1994). A rich and fruitful career indeed. -- Guillaume Ansart  [2]
  Occupation	Taught at Brown for two years, and remainder of career as Professor of French Literature, Indiana University  [2]
  Death	17 Jan 2017
  Person ID	I1061	Hugh Byrne and Nanette Asimov Lines
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	TRAPNELL, William Holmes,   b. 19 Jan 1905, Yonkers, NY d. 12 Aug 1973, Manakin Sabot, Goochland, Virginia, United States of America (Age 68 years)
  Mother	GORDON, Sally Berkeley,   b. 26 Mar 1910, Richmond, VA, USA d. 16 May 2002, Goochland, VA (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	29 Mar 1930	1001 Floyd Ave, Richmond, VA, USA   [1, 3]
  		Mrs. William Holmes Trapnell 1930 Formerly Miss Sally Berkeley Gordon, Niece of the Author, Sally Berkeley Nelson, and Daughter of Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon of Richmond, Va., Who Was Married Recently.
  		Sally Berkeley Gordon - William Holmes Trapnell Wedding Invitation 1930 Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon announces the marriage of her daughter Sally Berkeley to Mr. William Holmes Trapnell on Saturday evening, March the twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and thirty Richmond, Virginia
  Notes	From NY Times: Trapnell - Gordon Richmond, Va., March 29 - The wedding of Miss Sally Berkeley Gordon, daughter of Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon of 1001 Floyd Avenue, Richmond, and William Holmes Trapnell, son of Joseph Trapnell of Chatham, N.J., formerly of Charles Town, W. Va., took place this evening at the home of the bride, with Dr. Richard Trapnell of Norfolk, uncle of the bridegroom, assisted by Dr. Beverley D. Tucker Jr. of this city, performing the ceremony. Mrs. Homer L. Ferguson Jr., sister of the bride, was matron of honor, and the Misses Anne Hill Brown and Helen Smith of ROchester, N. Y., were bridesmaids. The bridegroom had as his best man his brother, Franklin Trapnell of Baltimore. [3]
  Documents		Mrs. William Holmes Trapnell 1930 Formerly Miss Sally Berkeley Gordon, Niece of the Author, Sally Berkeley Nelson, and Daughter of Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon of Richmond, Va., Who Was Married Recently.
  		Sally Berkeley Gordon - William Holmes Trapnell Wedding Invitation 1930 Mrs. Thomas Christian Gordon announces the marriage of her daughter Sally Berkeley to Mr. William Holmes Trapnell on Saturday evening, March the twenty-ninth nineteen hundred and thirty Richmond, Virginia
  Family ID	F415	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	DELEUIL, Maryse
  Family ID	F435	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Dec 2009

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 16 Sep 1931 - Richmond VA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S72] Frederica Holmes Trapnell, Joseph Trapnell Descendants, (1964). [S683] Guillaume Ansart, Passing of Professor Emeritus William Trapnell. [S602] Trapnell-Gordon.