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Terrot Reaveley Glover

1869 – 1943

British classical philologist

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Lived 1869 – 1943 (aged 73). Terrot Reaveley Glover was a British classical philologist, university teacher and historian.

Terrot Reaveley Glover (23 July 1869 – 26 May 1943) was a lecturer of classical literature. He was a Latinist, and is known for translating Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses to Latin.

Life Glover was born in Bristol where his father, the Rev. Richard Glover, was minister of Tyndale Baptist Church. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read classics. Glover also wrote books, including The Jesus of History and Poets and Puritans.

Glover was a Baptist and attended St Andrews Street Baptist Church in Cambridge, where his friend Melbourn Aubrey was minister until 1925. Aubrey recalled that for Glover "the Old Testament came to have less and less value and in his last years he appeared to resent ministers taking texts or even lessons from it." Glover had six children. He conducted services in Appleton chapel at Harvard University on 19 December 1923 while visiting the university.

Selected bibliography

Life and Letters in the Fourth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1901) Studies in Virgil, London: E. Arnold. (1904) - 4th ed. 1920 The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire, London: Methuen & Co. (1909) - 3d ed. The Nature and Purpose of a Christian Society, London: Headley Bros.; New York: George H. Doran Company. (1912) The Christian Tradition and its Verification, London: Methuen & Co. (1912) - 4th ed. 1917 Poets and Puritans, London: Methuen & Co. (1915) The Jesus of History, London: Student Christian Movement; New York: Association Press. (1917) From Pericles to Philip, New York: The Macmillan Company. (1917) The Pilgrim: Essays on Religion, London: Student Christian Movement. (1921) Jesus in the Experience of Men, New York: Association Press. (1921) Progress in Religion to the Christian Era, London: Student Christian Movement. (1922) Herodotus, Berkeley, Calif.: The University of California Press. (1924) The Influence of Christ in the Ancient World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1929) The World of the New Testament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1931) Apology: De spectaculis, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (1931) - Tertullian, c. 160-ca. 230.; with Marcus Minucius Felix Horace: A Return to Allegiance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1932) Democracy and Religion..., Sackville: N. B., Mount Allison University. (1932) The Ancient World: A Beginning, New York: The Macmillan Company. (1935) Paul of Tarsus, London: Student Christian Movement. (1938) Disciple, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1942) The Challenge of the Greek and other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1942) Cambridge Retrospect, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Disciple Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1943) Springs of Hellas and other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1945)

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University of Cambridge
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Honorary doctorate from McMaster University; Honorary doctor of the University of St Andrews

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British classical philologist

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Terrot Reaveley Glover was born on 23 July 1869 in Bristol.

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Terrot Reaveley Glover died on 26 May 1943 in Cambridge.

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Terrot Reaveley Glover was a classical philologist, university teacher and historian.

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Terrot Reaveley Glover was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Terrot Reaveley Glover

· Wikidata: Q2405525

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