- John Percival Postgate
John Percival Postgate (
October 24 ,1853 -July 15 ,1926 ) was an English classicist, professor ofLatin at theUniversity of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920.Born in
Birmingham , the son ofJohn Postgate , he was educated at King Edward's School where he became head boy. He won a scholarship toTrinity College, Cambridge where he read classics, being elected a Fellow in 1878.He established himself as a creative editor of
Latin poetry with published editions ofPropertius , Lucan andTibullus . His major work was the "Corpus poetarum Latinorum". While at Cambridge, he edited the "Classical Review " and the "Classical Quarterly " while holding the chair of comparative philology atUniversity College, London .In 1909, reconciled that the Cambridge chair would go to
A.E. Housman , Postgate became professor of Latin at Liverpool.He retired to Cambridge in 1920. On
July 14 ,1926 he was injured in a cycling accident and died of his injuries the following day.Family
He was the father of Raymond and Margaret, and grandfather of
Oliver Postgate .Bibliography
*Todd, R. B. (ed.) (2004) "Dictionary of British Classicists" ISBN 1-85506-997-0
External links
* [http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator:(postgate+j+p) Works by J. P. Postgate] at the
Internet Archive
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