Francis Richard David Goodyear, FBA (2 February 1936 – 24 July 1987), commonly known as Frank Goodyear, was an English classicist.

Early life and education

Born in Luton on 2 February 1936, he was the son of a tradesman, Francis Goodyear, who later served as mayor of town. He attended

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where he largely taught himself Latin and Greek, before studying

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as a scholar at

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; he placed in the first class in both parts of the classical Tripos, securing the Craven Scholarship, Hallam Prize and the Chancellor's Medal for Classical Learning. He then studied for a

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under C. O. Brink at Cambridge; it was awarded in 1961.

Career

Goodyear was a research fellow at St John's from 1959 to 1960, when he was elected to a fellowship at

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. His early publications earned him a strong reputation among Latinists. In 1966, he moved to

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, aged only 30, to occupy the Hildred Carlile Chair of Latin. He was also dean of Faculty of Arts from 1971 to 1973 and vice-principal from 1972 to 1973. When the college merged with Royal Holloway College in 1984 owing to financial difficulties, he resigned his chair in protest. He was then appointed to a

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at the University of the Witwatersrand, which he held until his death following a heart attack on 24 July 1987, having suffered with alcoholism in his last years; he left a widow, (Cynthia) Rosalie (''née'' Attwood), and a son, Richard. Goodyear had been elected a member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in 1974 and a

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in 1984. He was an advisory editor of the Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries from 1974. James Diggle
"Francis Richard David Goodyear, 1936–1987"
'' Proceedings of the British Academy'', vol 74 (1988), pp. 361–372.

Bibliography

* (ed.) ''Incerti auctoris Aetna, Edited with an Introduction and Commentary'', Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, no. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965). * (ed. with W. V. Clausen, E. J. Kenney and J. A. Richmond), ''Appendix Virgiliana'', Oxford Classical Texts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966). * (ed. with James Diggle) ''Flavii Cresconii Corippi Iohannidos Sev de Bellis Libycis Libri VIII'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970). * ''Tacitus'', Greece and Rome, New Surveys in the Classics, no. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970). * (ed. with James Diggle) ''The Classical Papers of A. E. Housman'', 3 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972). * (ed.) ''The Annals of Tacitus Books 1–6, Edited with a Commentary'', vol. 1: ''Annals 1.1–54'', Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, no. 15 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972). * (ed.) ''The Annals of Tacitus Books 1–6, Edited with a Commentary'', vol. 2: ''Annals 1.55–81 and Annals 2'', Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, no. 23 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodyear, Frank 1936 births 1987 deaths English classical scholars Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Academics of Bedford College, London Academic staff of the University of the Witwatersrand Fellows of the British Academy