Charles Reginald Haines

Born in 1856 and dying in 1935, he is identified in library and reference records as a British classical scholar. He is also linked with Dover College, and his work shows a wide curiosity that reached beyond strict classical study into religion, local history, biography, and literature.

Writing as C. R. Haines as well as under his full name, he produced translations and scholarly editions including The Communings with Himself of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, and Sappho: the Poems and Fragments. He also wrote original works such as Christianity and Islam in Spain, A Complete Memoir of Richard Haines (1633-1685), Verses and Versions in English, Greek and Latin, and Dover Priory.

Taken together, his books suggest a scholar who enjoyed both careful research and the pleasure of making older texts readable for a wider audience. His catalog feels varied and distinctive: part classicist, part historian, and part literary enthusiast.