William Warde Fowler (16 May 1847 – 15 June 1921) was an

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historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the st ...

and

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

, and tutor at Lincoln College,

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. He was best known for his works on

ancient Roman religion Religion in ancient Rome consisted of varying imperial and provincial religious practices, which were followed both by the people of Rome as well as those who were brought under its rule. The Romans thought of themselves as highly religious, ...

. Among his most influential works wa
''The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic''
(1899). H. H. Scullard, in the introduction to his 1981 book on a similar topic, singled out Fowler's book as a particularly valuable resource despite its age, writing, "I have not been so presumptuous as to attempt to provide an alternative."

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''The City-State of the Greeks and Romans: a survey introductory to the study of Ancient History''
(1895)
''Julius Caesar and the Foundation of the Roman Imperial System''
(1903)
''Rome''
Home University Library (1912)
''Roman Ideas of Deity in the last century before the Christian Era''
Oxford lectures (1914)
''Roman Essays and Interpretations''
(1920) *
"Kingham, old and new, studies in a rural parish" by W. Warde Fowler, 1913"Obituary. W. Warde-Fowler"
by

Julian Huxley Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. ...

, from British Birds, Vol 15, No. 6 pp. 143–144 1847 births 1921 deaths Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford British ornithological writers English classical scholars English ornithologists Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford People educated at Marlborough College {{England-nonfiction-writer-stub