Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh

Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh (12 July 1843 – 10 July 1906) was an English academic and schoolmaster, known as a classical scholar and translator.

Life Born at Aldborough, Norfolk on 12 July 1843, he was the third and eldest surviving son in the family of twelve children of Robert Shuckburgh, rector of the parish, by his wife Elizabeth (died 1876), daughter of Dr. Lyford of Winchester. He was educated for some time at a preparatory school kept at Winchester by the Rev. E. Huntingford; then he went to Ipswich School, under Hubert Ashton Holden, whose teaching Shuckburgh enjoyed. His father died in 1860, and in 1862 Shuckburgh entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge as an exhibitioner. He was president of the Cambridge Union in 1865, and graduated in the classical tripos of 1866.

From 1866 to 1874 Shuckburgh was a fellow and assistant tutor of Emmanuel College. In the latter year, having vacated his fellowship by his marriage, he became an assistant master at Eton College. There he remained for ten years, when he returned to Cambridge. He was appointed librarian of Emmanuel College, and concentrated on his teaching and writing.

Works Shuckburgh wrote with facility.

Other works Shuckburgh edited in 1889, with an introduction, The A.B.C. both in Latyn and Englishe, being a facsimile reprint of the earliest extant English Reading Book, and in 1891 Philip Sidney's Apologie for Poetrie from the text of 1595. He also published from a manuscript in the library of Emmanuel College The Soul and the Body, a Mediæval Greek Poem (1894). He contributed essays and occasional verses to literary journals. He wrote for the Edinburgh Review on the correspondence of Cicero (January 1901), and for the Dictionary of National Biography.