Arthur Spenser Loat Farquharson

Arthur Spencer Loat Farquharson (1871–1942), usually cited as A. S. L. Farquharson, was a British classicist, translator, and Dean of University College, Oxford. His best-known work is the translation of Marcus Aurelius' book Meditations.

F. H. S. Shepherd, "University College Fellows", 1934: grouped under the college's bust of King Alfred are D. L. Keir, E. W. Ainley-Walker, A. D. Gardner, G. D. H. Cole, J. P. R. Maud, A. L. Goodhart, J. H. S. Wild, E. J. Bowen, A. B. Poynton, Sir Michael Sadler, A. S. L. Farquharson (in the centre), E. F. Carritt, G. H. Stevenson, and K. K. M. Leys.

Biography Arthur Farquharson was born in 1871. He studied at University College, Oxford from 1890 to 1894, where he "obtained a First both in Mods in 1892 and in Finals in 1894". He was a fellow of the college from 1899 to 1942. He was a Dean and read lectures in logic. He participated in revising A Greek–English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott. His best-known work is the translation of Marcus Aurelius' book, Meditations. His translations of Aristotle's Progression of Animals and Movement of Animals were published in 1913.

The Oxford-based writer C. S. Lewis described his encounter with Farquharson in a letter of 26 January 1930 to his friend Arthur Greeves:

Farquharson was also a Colonel in the Territorial Army. The book was published during World War II, after Farquharson's death in 1942. The edition was prepared by Major John Sparrow and David Rees, and published in 1944. Another reviewer noted that "here has probably been no scholar of recent times better fitted to edit and interpret the meditations of the Stoic Emperor than the late Dr. Farquharson" and that "the new translation is nearly flawless". Another reviewer called it "monumental and beautiful work" that "promises to be the standard edition and commentary of Marcus for a long time to come".

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