Roger Mynors, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Mynors

British classical scholar

Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1903

Place of Birth: Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Oct-1989

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors, (28 July 1903 – 17 October 1989) was a British classical scholar. Mynors was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, and then at Eton.
He was an undergraduate at Balliol College, Oxford (1922-6), winning the university's Hertford and Craven scholarships.
At both Eton and Balliol he was a friend of Cyril Connolly.
He was a fellow and classical tutor at Balliol from 1927 until 1944 (with an interval of war work at the Treasury), when he moved to Cambridge as Kennedy Professor of Latin.
In 1953 he returned to Oxford as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin.
He retired in 1970. He was well known for authoritative editions of Latin texts, but he was also active in other fields.
He played a major part in the early years of the series Nelson's (later Oxford) Medieval Texts, himself contributing an edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
He was an expert on Latin manuscripts and produced important catalogues.
He was also a skilled translator who was a member of the Literary Committee for the New English Bible. He was knighted in 1963.
Elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1944, he was an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the Istituto di Studi Romani.
He received honorary degrees from four British universities and from the University of Toronto.
He served as president of the Classical Association in 1966.