John Tresidder Sheppard

Sir John Tresidder Sheppard (November 7, 1881(1881-11-07)–May 7, 1968(1968-05-07)) was an eminent classicist and the first non-Etonian to become the Provost of King's College, Cambridge.[1]

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Early life

John Sheppard was educated at Dulwich College.[1] He went up to King's College, Cambridge where he studied Classics.

Career

He was a lecturer in classics at King's College of Cambridge University from 1908–1933 and was provost from 1933–1954. During the Second World War he performed intelligence work, for which he was appointed MBE; he was knighted in 1950 for his services to Greek. During his long career he translated many famous Greek classics, and published several books on the subject, including The Pattern of the Iliad, Greek Tragedy, and Aeschylus & Sophocles: Their Work and Influence.

Personal life

John Sheppard was openly homosexual.[2][3][4]

Academic offices
Preceded by
Alan England Brooke		 Provost of King's College, Cambridge
1933-1954		 Succeeded by
Stephen Glanville

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Hodges, S, (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, pages 88, (Heinemann: London)
  2. ^ Costello, John (1998). The Mask of Treachery. Collins. p. 359. ISBN 0002175363. "Cambridge boasted the flamboyant homosexual John Tresidder Sheppard of King's…" 
  3. ^ Annan, Noel (2001). The Dons. University of Chicago Press. p. 115. ISBN 0226021084. "Sheppard, when a young fellow…went about proclaiming his infatuation with various handsome young men and tried to convince Lytton Strachey that to fall for a philistine was not necessarily evidence of a bad state of mind." 
  4. ^ Tamagne, Florence (2004). A history of homosexuality in Europe. Algora Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 0875862527.