Presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford - Kenneth Dover, Keith Thomas, Thomas Fowler, Edmund Staunton, William Chedsey, Richard Livingstone (Paperback)

Chapters: Kenneth Dover, Keith Thomas, Thomas Fowler, Edmund Staunton, William Chedsey, Richard Livingstone, John Rainolds, Tim Lankester, Thomas Turner, John Spenser, Robert Newlyn, John Claymond, William Cole, Richard Carwardine. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 46. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA (11 March 1920 7 March 2010) was a distinguished British Classical scholar and academic, who was head of an Oxford college and from 1981 until his retirement in December 2005 was Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Kenneth Dover was born in London, the only child of Percy Dover and Dorothy Healey. He was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford. He served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War and was mentioned in dispatches for his service in Italy. After military service, Dover returned to Oxford and became Fellow and tutor at his old college in 1948. In 1955, Dover was appointed Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, and was twice Dean of the university's Faculty of Arts during his twenty-one years there. He was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975. Dover received a knighthood two years later for services to Greek scholarship. In 1976, Sir Kenneth became President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a post he held for ten years. During this tenure a fellow of the College, Trevor Henry Aston (19251985), who suffered from manic depression, committed suicide with pills and alcohol. In Marginal Comment, his autobiography, Dover wrote: "it was clear to me by now that Trevor and the college must somehow be separated. My problem was one which I feel compelled to define with brutal candour: how to kill him without getting into trouble...I had no qualms about causing the death of a fellow from w...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=94438