William Moir Calder

Sir William Moir Calder (2 July 1881 – 17 August 1960) was a Scottish archaeologist, epigraphist, classicist, and academic. He was Hulme Professor of Greek at the University of Manchester from 1913 to 1930, and Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh from 1930 to 1951.

Education Calder was born on 2 July 1881 at Edinkillie in Moray. His father, George MacBeth Calder, was a farmer. later that year, he secured the Ferguson Scholarship for classics and went up to Christ Church, Oxford. In 1907, he graduated with a second-class Bachelor of Arts degree in .

Likenesses Sir William Moir Calder, by Elliott & Fry (bromide print, 1955). Kept in the National Portrait Gallery, London (Photographs Collection, NPG x86595).