John Stedmond is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Aberdeen. After teaching at both these universities, in 1958 he went to Queen’s University, where he is at present Professor and Chairman of Graduate Studies in English. Professor Stedmond is a member of the newly formed Laurence Sterne Memorial Committee which is currently raising money for the Laurence Sterne Memorial Trust set up to purchase the freehold of Shandy Hall where Sterne lived and wrote from 1760 until his death in 1768.