T. B. L. Webster

Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster (3 July 1905 – 31 May 1974) was a British classicist and archaeologist, known for his studies of Greek comedy.

Background He was the son of Sir Thomas Lonsdale Webster. During World War I he attended Charterhouse. As a student at Oxford University, he first studied Greek vases that John Beazley had brought in, but soon switched to Menander and developed a lifelong interest in Greek comedy that resulted in "reconstructions of the plots of lost plays and ... collections of evidence from widely disparate sources bearing on the history of the Greek theater".

Awards and honours President of the Joint Association of Classical Teachers President of the Hellenic Society and the Classical Association Membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in1936. President Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1946–48 Honorary Doctor of Letters at University of Manchester 1966 (also at Trinity College, Dublin) Fellowships of the Royal Academy and the Society of Antiquaries of London In honour of his work, a street in the Acropolis district of Athens has been renamed to Webster Street (transliterated Gouemster on some signs and maps).

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