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Roger Mynors

Roger Mynors

Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors (1903-1989) was a British academic and classical scholar.

Mynors was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford and won a scholarship to Eton. He was Newcastle Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton and Balliol he was a friend of Cyril Connolly [Cyril Connolly "Enemies of Promise" 1938] . He was Hertford and Craven Scholar and became a Fellow of Balliol in 1926. In 1944 he became Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University and in 1953 became Professor at Oxford. [Summer Fields Register 1864 -1960 Oxonian Press 1960] He was a member of the Literary Committee for the New English Bible and worked on a new edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical History and various Latin translations. In 1963, he was knighted and in 1966 became president of the Classical Association. He was an expert on ancient church manuscripts. He was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and received honorary degrees from many universities in Britain and at the University of Toronto.

Mynors married Lavinia Alington, daughter of Cyril Alington, headmaster of Eton and Dean of Durham. He was killed in a car crash at the age of 86. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEED81130F933A15753C1A96F948260 New York Times October 20 1989] ]

Publications

* Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors "Bedes Ecclesiastical history of the English People" Clarendon Press 1969
* R.A.B Mynors " XII Panegyrici Latini". Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964

References

External links

* [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.bourgonjen/Mynors/imagemap.htm Sir ROGER MYNORS in Leeuwarden 21.2.1984]


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