Dr. Malcolm Polstead was a scholar at the University of Oxford in Lyra's world.
Biography
As a child, Malcom lived with his parents at the Trout Inn near Oxford. One night, he helped Lord Asriel visit Godstow Priory to visit his daughter Lyra when she was just a baby.
In his adult life, he obtained a doctorate. Lyra wrote him a letter, asking him for advice about writing her dissertation.[3]
Appearances
- Lyra's Oxford (Mentioned only)
- La Belle Sauvage
Notes and references
- ↑ Polstead is eleven in La Belle Sauvage when Lyra is an infant. This makes him around 26 when he appears in Lyra's Oxford
- ↑ Lyra's Oxford
- ↑ Once Upon a Time in the North