Douglas Maurice MacDowell, (8 March 193117 January 2010) was a British

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Early life and career

He was educated at Highgate School and Balliol College, Oxford where he gained first class honours in Greats. After

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, and having taught at Allhallows School and then Merchant Taylors' School, he moved into academia. He was a lecturer at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univ ...

before joining the

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. He was Professor of Greek at Glasgow between 1971 and 2001, during which time he introduced courses on Ancient Greek civilisation which did not require knowledge of the language.

Honours

In 1991 MacDowell was elected a

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(FRSE), Scotland's

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. In 1993 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Selected works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDowell, Douglas 1931 births 2010 deaths People educated at Highgate School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British classical scholars Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of the University of Glasgow Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows of the British Academy