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1862–1927
A classicist and teacher with a deep love of drama, he is best remembered for writing a thoughtful study of the playwright Philip Massinger. His work brings patient scholarship to older literature without losing sight of the pleasure of reading it.
by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank
Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank was a British scholar of Greek and classical literature who lived from 1862 to 1927. Records linked through Oxford and Durham sources show that he studied at New College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1881, became a scholar, and later earned both his B.A. and a fellowship.
He spent many years as an assistant master at Winchester College, from 1894 to 1910, before moving to Durham. There he served as Canon of Durham and as Professor of Greek and Classical Literature in the University of Durham from 1910 until 1927.
As an author, Cruickshank is known for serious literary and classical work rather than popular fiction. His best-known book is Philip Massinger, a study of the Jacobean dramatist, and he also published Hypsipyle, based on a paper read to the Northumberland and Durham Classical Association in 1913.