author
Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring
d. 1919
Best remembered for helping shape early 20th-century Latin teaching, this British schoolbook writer co-created practical classroom texts that aimed to make the language more approachable. His surviving works suggest a teacher focused on method, clarity, and steady progress.
1 Audiobook
Primus Annus
by W. L. (Walter Lionel) Paine, Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring
About the author
Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring was a British educational author active in the early 1900s, known from library and public-domain records for Latin textbooks including Primus Annus and Secundus Annus. He worked with Walter Lionel Paine on at least some of these books, and the titles were published by Oxford's Clarendon Press.
The books are remembered as structured introductions to Latin for students, with a practical, lesson-based approach rather than a purely scholarly one. That makes him less a literary figure than a classroom-minded writer whose work was meant to be used day by day.
Available records also identify him as Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring and note that he died in 1919. I couldn't confirm enough biographical detail beyond his teaching-related publications to safely add more personal background.