Sir Charles William Willink, 2nd Baronet (10 September 1929 – 10 March 2009) was an English classical scholar, teacher and baronet. He succeeded his father Sir Henry Willink to the Willink Baronetcy on his death in 1973, and was himself succeeded on his death by his son Sir Edward Daniel Willink.

Life

Sir Henry's eldest son, Charles won a King's Scholarship to

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(where he was a friend and contemporary of

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, and won the

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a year before him) before reading an MA and PhD in Classics at

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. He married the artist Elizabeth Andrewes in 1954 and they had two children, Edward and Penelope. He then entered teaching, first at Marlborough College and then (from 1954 to 1984) at Eton, where he rose to housemaster. He was a specialist in

ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...

metre and

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. His publications include an

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edition of ''

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'' by

Euripides Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom any plays have survived in full. Some ancient scholars a ...

with commentary, and numerous journal articles and reviews. From 1982 he also cooperated with his Cambridge tutor John Morrison, the banker Frank Welsh and the naval architect John Coates to produce a full-size replica of a Greek

trireme A trireme( ; derived from Latin: ''trirēmis'' "with three banks of oars"; cf. Greek ''triērēs'', literally "three-rower") was an ancient vessel and a type of galley that was used by the ancient maritime civilizations of the Mediterranean S ...

, founding the Trireme Trust with them and culminating in the launch of the '' Olympias'' in 1987. After his retirement he became an expert amateur botanist, specialising in flowers on Hampstead Heath and chairing

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Arms

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Willink, Charles 1929 births 2009 deaths English classical scholars Classics educators Schoolteachers from Wiltshire Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Eton King's Scholars Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom People educated at Eton College Teachers at Eton College