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Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring

d. 1919

Known mainly for school Latin readers written with Walter Lionel Paine, this early 20th-century author helped shape beginner-friendly classroom texts. His surviving works suggest a practical, teaching-focused approach rather than a large literary career.

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Primus Annus

Primus Annus

by W. L. (Walter Lionel) Paine, Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring

About the author

Very little biographical information about this author is readily confirmed online, but library records identify Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring as an author who died in 1919. He is chiefly associated with educational books rather than fiction or poetry.

His best-known surviving works were written with Walter Lionel Paine, including Primus Annus (1912), Secundus Annus (1917), and Decem fabulae pueris puellisque agendae (1919). These books were published for Latin learners and point to a strong connection with classroom teaching and language instruction.

Because confirmed personal details are scarce, it is safest to remember him as a specialist contributor to early 20th-century Latin education whose books continued to circulate through library and public-domain collections after his death.