Adcock, Sir Frank Ezra (1886–1968), historian of Greece and Rome, was born on 15 April 1886 at Desford, Leicestershire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Draper Adcock, schoolmaster, head of the Desford Industrial School, and his wife, Mary Esther Coltman. He was educated at the ...
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T. Corey Brennan
Badian, Ernst (1925–2011), historian of ancient Greece and Rome, was born on 8 August 1925 in Vienna, the only child of Josef (Joseph) Badian (1893–1965), bank clerk, and his wife, Salka (Sally), née Horinger (1894–1965). Jewish by descent, he experienced the organized anti-Jewish mob violence of ...
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Bernal, Martin Gardiner (1937–2013), Sinologist and ancient historian, was born on 10 March 1937 at 35 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, London, the son of (John) Desmond Bernal (1901–1971), physicist, and Margaret Emilia Gardiner (1904–2005), arts patron. His mother, the daughter of the Egyptologist Sir Alan Gardiner...
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Gilbert Murray and Clement C. J. Webb
revised by Michael H. Crawford
Bevan, Edwyn Robert (1870–1943), ancient historian and philosopher, was born in London on 15 February 1870, the seventh son of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (1809–1890), banker, of Fosbury House, Wiltshire, and Trent Park, and the third with his second wife, the translator and poet ...
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Brooks, Ernest Walter (1863–1955), ancient historian and Syriac scholar, was born in Hambledon, Horndean, Hampshire, on 30 August 1863, the only child of the Revd Walter Brooks, curate of Hambledon, who died when Ernest was a child, and his wife, Emily Grace, née...
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Simon Keynes and Janet L. Nelson
Brooks, Nicholas Peter (1941–2014), historian, was born at Warrenhurst, West Drive, Virginia Water, Surrey, on 14 January 1941, the third of four children of William Donald Wykeham Brooks (1905–1993), a physician at St Mary’s Hospital, London, who served during the Second World War as a naval doctor, and his wife, ...
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Michael H. Crawford
Brunt, Peter Astbury (1917–2005), ancient historian, was born on 23 June 1917, at 16 Highfield Road, Coulsdon, Surrey, the only child of Samuel Brunt, Wesleyan Methodist minister, and his wife, Gladys Eileen, née Blewett. He was educated at Ipswich School, and won an open scholarship in history to ...
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Costard, George (bap. 1710, d. 1782), writer on ancient astronomy, was baptized on 20 January 1710 at St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, the son of the Revd Edward Coster, vicar of St Mary's, and his wife, Anne. Educated at Shrewsbury grammar school, in 1726 he matriculated at ...
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W. W. Wroth
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Gillies, John (1747–1836), ancient historian and classical scholar, was born in Brechin, Forfarshire, on 18 January 1747, the eldest son in the large family of Robert Gillies, a merchant in Brechin and proprietor of Little Keithock, and his wife, Margaret Smith, the daughter of a ...
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Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Grant, Michael (1914–2004), numismatist and ancient historian, was born on 21 November 1914 at 18 Victoria Grove, Kensington, London, the only son of Lieutenant-Colonel Maurice Harold Grant (1872–1962), army officer, journalist, and art historian, and his wife, Muriel Ethel Fanny, née Jorgensen (1877/8–1981)...
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Greenidge, Abel Hendy Jones (1865–1906), ancient historian, second son of Nathaniel Heath Greenidge and his wife, Elizabeth Cragg Kellman, was born on 22 December 1865 at Belle Farm estate, Barbados, in which island his father's family had been settled since 1635. His father, for many years vicar of ...
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T. E. Peet
revised by R. S. Simpson
Hall, Reginald Holland [Harry] (1873–1930), ancient historian and archaeologist, was born Reginald Holland at 39 Birkbeck Road, Islington, London, on 30 September 1873. The name of his mother was recorded as Emma Holland, who was later married to Sydney Prior Hall (1842–1922), portrait painter and artist to ...
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P. A. Brunt
Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin (1904–1970), historian, was born at Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 9 March 1904, the son of John Arthur Jones (1867–1939), then on the staff of the Liverpool Post and later (1908–24) editor of The Statesman of Calcutta, and his wife, Elsie Martin...
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David L. Wykes
Kenrick, John (1788–1877), historian and tutor, was born on 4 February 1788 at Exeter, the eldest son and second of five children of Timothy Kenrick (1759–1804), Unitarian minister, and his first wife, Mary (d. 1793), the daughter of John Waymouth of Exeter...
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Michael H. Crawford
Mattingly, Harold (1884–1964), numismatist and ancient historian, was born at Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk, on 24 December 1884, the son of Robert Mattingly, a clothier who became a JP and mayor of Sudbury, and his wife, Gertrude Emma Boggis. In January 1896 he went to the ...
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Meiggs, Russell (1902–1989), historian, was born on 20 October 1902 in Balham, London, the only son and younger child of William Herrick Meiggs, of no fixed occupation but who described himself on his son's birth certificate as 'general merchant', and his wife, ...
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Russell Meiggs (1902–1989) by Michael Noakes, 1972 Balliol College, Oxford / Michael Noakes
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Mitford, William (1744–1827), historian of ancient Greece, born in London on 10 February 1744, was the elder son of John Mitford (d. 1761), barrister, of Exbury House, Hampshire, and his wife, Philadelphia, daughter of Willey Reveley of Newton Underwood and Throphill, Northumberland...
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Arnaldo Dante Momigliano (1908–1987) by unknown photographer photograph reproduced by courtesy of The British Academy
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Momigliano, Arnaldo Dante (1908–1987), ancient historian, was born on 5 September 1908 in Caraglio, near Cuneo, Italy, the only son and eldest of three children of Riccardo Salomone Momigliano, grain merchant, and his wife, Ilda Levi. His was a prominent Jewish intellectual family; his father and mother died in a concentration camp in the Second World War. He was educated at home, and from 1925 at ...
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