Editing Inklings (section)

== Members ==

[[File:Birdandbaby.jpg|thumb|right|[[The Eagle and Child]] pub (commonly known as the Bird and Baby or simply just the Bird) in [[Oxford]] where the Inklings met informally on Tuesday mornings during term.]]

The more regular members of the Inklings, many of them academics at the University, included:<!--{{sfn|Carpenter|2023|pp=}} Page range was given as 1981 edition, pp. 255–259, which is visibly wrong, whereas the other letter refs below were correct-->

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* [[Owen Barfield]]<ref name="Glyer 2019">{{cite journal |last=Glyer |first=Diana Pavlac |title=Surprised by friendship |url=https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/inklings-surprised-by-friendship |date=2019 |journal=Christian History |issue=132 |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref> 
* [[Lord David Cecil]]<ref name="Glyer 2019"/>  
* [[Hugo Dyson]]<ref name="Glyer 2019"/>{{sfn|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #71 to Christopher Tolkien, 25 May 1944}}
* [[Adam Fox (poet)|Adam Fox]]{{sfn|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #28 to Stanley Unwin, 4 June 1938}}
* [[Robert Havard]]<ref name="Christian History 1985"/> (Lewis's and Tolkien's doctor, dubbed "Useless Quack" by Warren Lewis){{sfn|Glyer|2007|p=12}}
* [[C. S. Lewis]]<ref name="Glyer 2019"/> 
* [[Warren Lewis]] (C. S. Lewis's elder brother)<ref name="Glyer 2019"/>  
* [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]<ref name="Glyer 2019"/> 
* [[Christopher Tolkien]] (J. R. R. Tolkien's son)<ref name="Glyer 2019"/>  
* [[Charles Williams (British writer)|Charles Williams]]<ref name="Glyer 2019"/> 
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Less frequent visitors included:
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* [[Nevill Coghill]]<ref name="Christian History 1985">{{cite journal |last1=no byline |title=The Inklings |journal=Christian History |date=1985 |issue=7 |url=https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/lewis-inklings}}</ref>
* [[James Dundas-Grant]]{{sfn|Kilby|Mead|1982|p=230}} 
* [[Colin Hardie]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Bailey |first=Cyril |title=Hardie, William Ross (1862–1916) |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33698 |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |year=2004 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=9 November 2024}}</ref>
* [[Gervase Mathew]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Chadwick |first=Henry |date=May 1976 |title=Obituary: Gervase Mathew |journal=New Blackfriars |volume=57 |issue=672 |pages=194–196 |doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005 |doi-broken-date=26 April 2025 |jstor=43246551}}</ref>
* [[R. B. McCallum]]{{sfn|Kilby|Mead|1982|p=230}}  
* [[Courtenay Edward Stevens]]<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Plaskitt |first1=Emma |title=Inklings (act. 1930–1960) |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-92544 |year=2006 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92544|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8}}</ref>
* [[Charles Leslie Wrenn]]{{sfn|Kilby|Mead|1982|p=230}}   
* [[George Temple]]<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last1= Hollings |editor-first1= Christopher |editor-last2= McCartney |editor-first2= Mark |title= Oxford's Sedleian Professors of Natural Philosophy | publication-place=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-date=2023 |page=188 }}</ref>
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Guests included: 

<!--* [[Jack A. W. Bennett]]--><!--never cited, here or in his article, go on, you try-->
* [[Roy Campbell (poet)|Roy Campbell]]{{sfn|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #83 to Christopher Tolkien, 6 October 1944}}
* [[E. R. Eddison]]{{sfn|Carpenter|2023|loc=Letter #73 to Christopher Tolkien, 10 June 1944}}
<!--* [[Roger Lancelyn Green]]--><!--https://www.mythsoc.org/inklings.htm says never a member-->