Gilbert Austin Davies

Gilbert Austin Davies (born in London, 15 September 1868, died 26 July 1948) was an English classical scholar.

Life

After education at Aldenham Grammar School and Owen’s College, Manchester, Davies went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, as a scholar in 1887.[1] He began his academic career at Trinity, where he was a Fellow from 1892 to 1898,[2] during which time he produced a school edition of the first book of Tacitus's Histories[3] in 1896.

In 1898 he was appointed as the second Gladstone Professor of Greek at the still new University of Liverpool before moving in 1906 to the more long-established chair in Greek at the University of Glasgow, a position he held until retirement in 1934. His service in Glasgow was interposed by voluntary work during the First World War for the Serbian Relief Fund, for which he received the award of the Serbian Order of St Sava.[2]

Davies produced abridged versions of the commentaries of Jebb on two of Sophocles' plays, Trachiniai and Electra, both of which have been reprinted in 2010,[4] and an edition of the First, Second and Third Philippics of Demosthenes.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Davies, Gilbert Austin (DVS887GA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 University of Glasgow Story, Accessed 23 October 2010
  3. ↑ Google ebook of Tacitus, Histories Book 1, accessed 23 October 2010
  4. ↑ Amazon.com, Accessed 23 October 2010
  5. ↑ Review in The Classical Journal Volume 5, No 7, May 1910
Academic offices
Preceded by
Gerald Henry Rendall		 Gladstone Professor of Greek Liverpool University
1898 - 1906 		Succeeded by
Sir John Linton Myres
Preceded by
John Swinnerton Phillimore		 Professor of Greek Glasgow University
1906 - 1934 		Succeeded by
William Rennie