author
Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring
d. 1919
Known for helping shape an early 20th-century Latin course, this writer is associated with practical school texts that aimed to make the language more direct and usable for students. His surviving works suggest a teacher focused on clear method rather than dry drill.
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Primus Annus
by W. L. (Walter Lionel) Paine, Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring
About the author
Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring was a British author of Latin teaching books active in the early 1900s. Library and public-domain records connect him with Primus Annus and Secundus Annus, classroom texts produced with Walter Lionel Paine and published by the Clarendon Press.
Those books were designed as introductory Latin courses, and later descriptions of Primus Annus say it applied the "Direct Method" to Latin teaching. That makes Mainwaring part of a period when some teachers were trying to make classical language study more lively and practical for beginners.
The available records are sparse, but catalog and memorial sources identify him as Cyril Lyttleton Mainwaring, born in 1887 and deceased in 1919. I couldn't confirm enough biographical detail from reliable open sources to go further with confidence, so this overview focuses on the works that can be clearly linked to him.