Hugo Dyson

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Henry Victor Dyson Dyson (1896-1975), generally known as Hugo Dyson and who signed his writings H. V. D. Dyson, was an English academic and a member of the Inklings literary group. He was a committed Christian, and together with J.R.R Tolkien, he helped persuade C.S. Lewis to convert to active Christianity.

Dyson taught English at the University of Reading from 1924 until obtaining a fellowship at Merton College, Oxford in 1945. He retired in 1963.

Dyson was noted for the rarity of his published writings but the high quality and voluminous quantity of his lectures and general conversation. He much preferred talk at Inklings meetings to readings, and is recorded by A. N. Wilson in his biography of Lewis as having rudely interrupted Tolkien's readings from The Lord of the Rings. Thereafter, Tolkien often limited his readings to times when Dyson was not present.

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