James, Rev. Edwin Oliver, (30 March 1888–6 July 1972), Chaplain, All Souls College, Oxford, since 1960; University Professor of the History and Philosophy of Religion, University of London, 1948–55 (Professor of the Philosophy of Religion in the University of London (King’s College), 1945–48); Professor Emeritus, 1955; Fellow of University College, London, 1946; Fellow of King’s College, London, 1950; Wilde Lecturer in Natural and Comparative Religion, Oxford University, 1939–42; Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Wakefield, 1938; Editor of Folklore since 1932; Forwood Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion, University of Liverpool, 1949–50; Visiting Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, 1949; Marburg, 1960; Jordan Bequest Lecturer, 1961

Maurice Hill was born in Cambridge on 29 May 1919. His father was A. V. Hill, the distinguished physiologist, who was at that time a Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. In 1913, A. V. Hill married Margaret Keynes, the sister of Maynard Keynes, the economist, and of Geoffrey Keynes, the surgeon and author of erudite bibliographies of William Harvey, John Donne and others. Margaret’s father was J. N. Keynes (1852-1949), Registrary to the University, a Fellow of Pembroke College until his marriage, and the author of a well-known book on statistics. His wife Florence Ada Keynes ( née Brown), who was one of the earliest students of Newnham College, was Mayor of Cambridge in 1932 and published two books, one when she was 86 and the other three years later. Maurice was the youngest of a family of four children, having one brother and two sisters. Shortly after Maurice’s birth, the family moved to Manchester where A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology and received a Nobel Prize. In 1923 they moved to Highgate when A. V. Hill became Professor of Physiology at University College London. At the age of six Maurice went to Byron House School. His school reports have been preserved; they give a picture of an intelligent little boy with an ‘open, happy nature’, interested in many things but finding neatness in writing hard to attain. In 1928 he went to Highgate Junior School where he stayed for almost three years. His performance and reports were undistinguished and he was sent for a year and a half to Avondale, a boarding school at Clifton, near Bristol. Here his work at once improved and he was consistently near the top of his class. In 1932 he returned to Highgate and started in the Senior School as a day boy. He remained there till 1938. From the start he found an interest in physics and mathematics.

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Classical Association Jubilee

Greece and Rome ◽

10.1017/s0017383500011876 ◽

1953 ◽

Vol 22 (66) ◽

pp. 97-97

Author(s):

T. B. L. Webster

Keyword(s):

King's College ◽

Classical Studies ◽

University College ◽

Lecture Theatre ◽

History Of ◽

University College London ◽

Excellent Work ◽

Classical Association ◽

The University ◽

Work Done

The Classical Association was founded in December 1903 in the Botany Lecture Theatre of University College, London. University College has invited the Association to celebrate its Jubilee there from 7 to 10 April 1954. Invitations have been received from the University, King's College, and Westminster School to hold part of the functions in their buildings and a special exhibition of new books is being arranged by the University Library. In connexion with the Jubilee an appeal is being issued to members with the object of raising a small working capital to avoid the necessity of increasing the subscription, which in spite of growing membership no longer produces enough to cover the increased cost of printing and provides no margin for extra activities.It is hoped that the Hon. Secretary, Professor L. J. D. Richardson, will give the opening lecture on the history of the Association. Headings will clearly be: the foundation of local branches in this country and of parallel associations in the Commonwealth, the establishment of the Association's three journals, the institution of school reading competitions, and the excellent work done by the Education Sub-Committee. During its fifty years of life the Association has endeavoured to fulfil the objects laid down in the rules. Two recent activities are designed particularly ‘to encourage investigation and call attention to new discoveries’ and ‘to create opportunities for friendly intercourse’, viz. participation in the Joint Committee of Greek and Roman Societies, which runs the successful triennial meetings at Oxford and Cambridge, and membership of the International Federation of Classical Studies, whose next conference will be in Copenhagen in August 1954.

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