About Brian Kemball-Cook
Lived 1912 – 2002 (aged 89). Brian Kemball-Cook was a British translator and classical scholar.
Brian Hartley Kemball-Cook (12 December 1912 – 19 September 2002 ) was a classicist and headmaster at a direct grant grammar school in Blackburn and Bedford Modern School. Among other works, Kemball-Cook published his translation of Homer's Odyssey into English in the original hexameter.
He was the son of Basil Kemball-Cook and his wife Nancy Pavitt. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.
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Who was Brian Kemball-Cook?
educator, translator, classicist
When was Brian Kemball-Cook born?
Brian Kemball-Cook was born on 12 December 1912.
When did Brian Kemball-Cook die?
Brian Kemball-Cook died on 19 September 2002.
What was Brian Kemball-Cook's occupation?
Brian Kemball-Cook was a translator and classical scholar.
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Brian Kemball-Cook was British.
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