Gilbert Austin Davies (15 September 1868 – 26 July 1948) was an

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classical scholar.

Life

Davies was born in London. After education at Aldenham Grammar School and Owen’s College, Manchester, Davies went up to

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, as a scholar in 1887. He began his academic career at Trinity, where he was a Fellow from 1892 to 1898,University of Glasgow Story
Accessed 23 October 2010 during which time he produced a school edition of the first book of Tacitus's Histories in 1896. In 1898 he was appointed as the second

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at the still new

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before moving in 1906 to the more long-established chair in Greek at the

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, a position he held until retirement in 1934. His service in Glasgow was interposed by voluntary work during the

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for the Serbian Relief Fund, for which he received the award of the Serbian Order of St Sava. Davies produced abridged versions of the commentaries of Jebb on two of

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' plays, Trachiniai and Electra, both of which have been reprinted in 2010, and an edition of the

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and

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s of

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.Review in The Classical Journal
Volume 5, No 7, May 1910

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Gilbert Austin 1868 births 1948 deaths People educated at Aldenham School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Liverpool Academics of the University of Glasgow English classical scholars Recipients of the Order of St. Sava