Thomas Ethelbert Page

Thomas Ethelbert Page, CH (27 March 1850 – 1 April 1936) was a British classicist.

Early life

Thomas Ethelbert Page was born in Lincoln, England on the 27th of March 1850. He was the second son of William Tomlinson Page, the manager of the Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, and his wife Anne, whose maiden surname was Watson.[1][2][3]He was baptised at St Peter at Arches Church, Lincoln, on the 28th of April 1850.[4] During the time of the 1851 census, taken on the 30th of March, Thomas was living with his family at number 18, Salter Gate, Lincoln.[5] He attended Lincoln Grammar School, Shrewsbury School, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he ranked second in Classics in 1873.[6]

Career

After his graduation, Page worked as a sixth-form master at Charterhouse School until 1910. After his retirement, he was appointed as the first editor of the Loeb Classical Library. During his career, he was offered the headships of Harrow and Shrewsbury, as well as the Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge, all of which he turned down.[6]

Page received the LittD from Manchester University in 1913 and was made an honorary Fellow of St John's College in 1931. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in the 1934 New Year Honours "for services to scholarship and letters".[7]

Thomas married Delamotte Caroline Eugenie Toynbee, on the 16th of December 1875 at St George's Hanover Square Church, London.[8]Her father Edward was born in 1825 at Heckington, and was a half-brother of Joseph Toynbee.They had two daughters.[6] He died at a nursing home in Godalming, on the 1st of April 1936,[9]five days after his 86th birthday.[1][2]

References
  1. "Dr. Thomas. E. Page. Noted Classical Scholar."Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer, Thursday 02 April 1936, p.5.The British Newspaper Archive; Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited in partnership with the British Library. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. "Dr. T. E. Page. Scholar Who Was Honoured at 83." Belfast News Letter, Thursday 02 April 1936, p.13. The British Newspaper Archive; Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited in partnership with the British Library. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  3. "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008, Vol.14, Page.510,Line.12." Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  4. "LINCOLN ST PETER AT ARCHES PAR/1/7: Baptisms 1813-1877: No.375, p.47." Lincolnshire Archives. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  5. "Thomas Ethelbert Page in household of William Tomlinson Page, St Peter At Arches, Lincolnshire, England; citing St Peter At Arches, Lincolnshire, England Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851. Kew, Surrey, England: Class: HO107; Piece: 2105; Folio: 299; Page: 27; GSU roll: 87734." Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  6. Rudd, Niall. "Page, Thomas Ethelbert (1850–1936)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35352. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  7. "No. 34010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1934. p. 14.
  8. "Marriages." Lincolnshire Chronicle, Friday 24 December 1875, p.5.The British Newspaper Archive; Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited in partnership with the British Library. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  9. "Death Of Noted Greek Scholar."Daily Herald, Thursday 02 April 1936, p.11.The British Newspaper Archive; Findmypast Newspaper Archive Limited in partnership with the British Library. Retrieved 11 March 2020.

Further reading

Niall Rudd: T. E. Page: Schoolmaster Extraordinary. Bristol, 1981.


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