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Harold Edgeworth Butler
1878–1951
A gifted British Latin scholar, he spent decades bringing the ancient world within reach of modern readers. Best known for his work on Quintilian and for succeeding A. E. Housman at University College London, he combined scholarship with a clear, readable style.
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Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
by Harold Edgeworth Butler
About the author
Harold Edgeworth Butler was born in 1878 and became a respected British scholar of Latin. He studied at Oxford, won the Newdigate Prize in 1899, and that same year became a lecturer and fellow of New College, Oxford.
After moving to University College London in 1909, he was appointed Professor of Latin in 1911, succeeding the poet and classicist A. E. Housman. He remained in that role until retiring in 1942, building a reputation as a careful teacher and interpreter of classical literature.
Readers are most likely to know him through his translations and editions, especially his Loeb Classical Library translation of Quintilian's Institutio Oratoria. His work helped make major Latin texts more approachable for English-speaking audiences, and it still reflects the steady, thoughtful scholarship for which he was known.