The Classical Association is a British
learned society
A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership ...
in the field of
classics
Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...
, aimed at developing classical study and promoting its importance in education.
Constitution
The association was founded on 19 December 1903, and its objects are defined in its constitution as:
# The advancement of education by the promotion, development and maintenance of classical studies
# To increase public awareness of the contribution and importance of classics to education and public life.
It was founded with the name "The Classical Association of England and Wales" but the name was changed to "The Classical Association" in 1907.
The Association is a registered charity.
Publications
The Association publishes three journals: ''The Classical Review'', ''The Classical Quarterly'' and ''Greece & Rome'', and a newspaper ''Classical Association News'' (sometimes abbreviated to CA News). Its other activities include work with schools, conferences, and the award of grants. The association celebrated its centenary in 2003 by publishing a book, ''The Classical Association: the First Century 1903–2003'', edited by Dr Christopher Stray; this includes a history of the association and studies of various aspects of its activities over the century, including an account of the
Classical Association of Scotland.
Following the merger of the
Joint Association of Classical Teachers
The Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT) was a UK organisation for the encouragement of the teaching of Classics in schools and universities. It was merged into the Classical Association with effect from 2 January 2015. The JACT Summer S ...
into the Classical Association in 2015, the Classical Association took over publication of JACT's journals, the ''Journal of Classics Teaching'' (which went online only) and ''Omnibus''.
List of presidents
*Sir
Richard Henn Collins (1903– )
*
Lord Halsbury (1905-6)
*
Lord Curzon
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and then Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman ...
(1906–7)
*S. H. Butcher (1907-8)
*
H. H. Asquith
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman and Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ...
(1908–9)
*
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer
Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, (; 26 February 1841 – 29 January 1917) was a British statesman, diplomat and colonial administrator. He served as the British controller-general in Egypt during 1879, part of the international control whic ...
(1909–10)
*Sir
Archibald Geikie (1910–11)
*
Edward Hicks (1911–12)
*Henry Montague Butler (1912–13)
*
Frederic Kenyon (1913–14)
*William Ridgeway (1914–15)
*Sir William Richmond (1915–16)
*
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce (1916–17)
*
Gilbert Murray (1917–18)
*Henry Fisher (1918–19)
*Sir
William Osler
Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet, (; July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the "Big Four" founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of phys ...
(1919– )
*
Walter Leaf (1921– )
*
Alfred, 1st Viscount Milner (1921–22)
*
John William Mackail
John William Mackail (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish academic of Oxford University and reformer of the British education system.
He is most often remembered as a scholar of Virgil and as the official biographer of the ...
(1923–4)
*
Robert Crewe-Milnes, Marquess of Crewe (1923–24)
*
John Percival Postgate
John Percival Postgate, FBA (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist and professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920. He was a member of the Postgate family.
Born in Birmingham, the son of John ...
(1925–6)
*
Stanley Baldwin
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, (3 August 186714 December 1947) was a British Conservative Party politician who dominated the government of the United Kingdom between the world wars, serving as prime minister on three occasions, ...
(1925-26–)
*
Gordon, Viscount Hewart (1926–27)
*
Robert Seymour Conway (1927–28)
*
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1928–29)
*
William Temple, Archbishop of York (1929–30)
*
Albert Curtis Clark (1930–31)
*
William David Ross (1932)
*Sir
George Macdonald
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(1932– )
*
William Inge
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(1933–34)
*
Cyril Bailey (1934–35)
*
Leo Amery (1935–36)
*
Terrot Reaveley Glover
Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869–1943) was a Cambridge University lecturer of classical literature. He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was also a Latinist, and is known for translating Robert Louis Stevenson's ''A Child's Garden o ...
(1937–38)
*Sir
Stephen Gaselee (diplomat) (1940–1)
*Sir
Richard Livingstone
Sir Richard Winn Livingstone (23 January 1880 – 26 December 1960) was a British classical scholar, educationist, and academic administrator. He promoted the classical liberal arts.
Life
Livingstone was born on 23 January 1880 in Liverpoo ...
(1941–2)
*
T. S. Eliot (1942–3)
*John Sheppard (1943– )
*
Maurice Bowra (1945– )
*Sir
Frank Adcock
Sir Frank Ezra Adcock, (15 April 1886 – 22 February 1968) was a British classical historian who was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge between 1925 and 1951. In addition to his academic work, he also served as a c ...
(1948–9)
*
Lord Soulbury (1949– )
*
Harold Nicolson
Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener. His wife was the writer Vita Sackville-West.
Early li ...
(1951–2)
*William Calder (1952–3)
*
Lord Samuel (1953–4)
*
Gilbert Murray (1954–5)
*Dr
G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young (29 April 1882 – 18 November 1959) was an English historian, best known for his book on Victorian times in Britain, ''Portrait of an Age'' (1936).
After a short time as an academic and a career as a civil servant lasting ...
(1955–6)
*Sir Harold Iaris Bell (1956–7)
*
John Spedan Lewis (1957–8)
*
Dorothy Tarrant (1958–9)
*Sir
Cyril Hinshelwood (1959– )
*
Lord Hailsham
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(1961–2)
*William Beare (1962–3)
*Professor
E. R. Dodds
Eric Robertson Dodds (26 July 1893 – 8 April 1979) was an Irish classical scholar. He was Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford from 1936 to 1960.
Early life and education
Dodds was born in Banbridge, County Down, the son of ...
(1963–4)
*Sir
Basil Blackwell (1964–5)
*Professor Sir
Roger Mynors (1965–6)
*
Dilys Powell (1966–7)
*Professor
W. K. C. Guthrie
William Keith Chambers Guthrie (1 August 1906 – 17 May 1981), usually cited as W. K. C. Guthrie, was a Scottish classical scholar, best known for his ''History of Greek Philosophy'', published in six volumes between 1962 and his dea ...
(1967–8)
*
Montague Woodhouse (1968–9)
*Professor
F. W. Walbank (1969–70)
*Sir John Hackett (1970–1)
*Patrick Wilkinson (1971–2)
*
Lord Boyle of Handsworth (1972–3)
*Professor
Moses Finley (1973–4)
*
Dom David Knowles (1974–5)
*Professor
Kenneth Dover (1975–6)
*Professor
David Daube (1976–7)
*Dr
Michael Grant (author) (1977–8)
*Professor
Brinley Rees
Brinley Roderick Rees (27 December 1919 – 21 October 2004) was a Welsh academic. He wrote extensively on Classics, particularly the study of the Greek language. His early work was devoted to Greek papyri; a later publication was devoted to th ...
(1978–9)
*
Lord Wolfenden (1979–80)
*Professor R. D. Williams (1980–1)
*Sir David Hunt (1981–2)
*Professor E. J. Kenney (1982–3)
*Professor Raymond Williams (1983–4)
*Professor
Eric Handley (1984–5)
*Sir Nicholas Goodison (1985–6)
*
Professor Norma Miller (1986–7)
*Tony Harrison (1987–8)
*Professor
Patricia Easterling (1988–9)
*Sir Jeremy Morse (1989–90)
*Professor George Kerferd (1990–1)
*Lord
Robert Runcie
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(1991–2)
*Professor
Fergus Millar
Sir Fergus Graham Burtholme Millar, (; 5 July 1935 – 15 July 2019) was a British ancient historian and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford between 1984 and 2002. He numbers among the most infl ...
(1992–3)
*Colin Haycraft (1993–4)
*Professor David West (1994–5)
*Anthony Cleaver (1995–6)
*
Carol Handley
Carol Margaret Handley (née Taylor; born 17 October 1929) is a former headmistress of Camden School for Girls (1971–1985) and president of the Classical Association (1996–1997). Handley is now a classics tutor at Wolfson College, Cambridge ...
(1996–7)
*
Lindsey Davis, historical novelist (1997–8)
*Professor
Oliver Taplin (1998–9)
*
Emma Kirkby (1999–2000)
*Professor
Peter Wiseman (2000–1)
*
Philip Howard (2001–2)
*Dr
Peter Jones (classicist) (2002–3)
*
Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
Susan Adele Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, (born 1 October 1950) is an English scientist, writer, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords (since 2001). Her research has focused on the treatment of Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's dise ...
(2003–4)
*Professor
Malcolm Schofield
Malcolm Schofield, (born 19 April 1942) is a British classicist and academic, specialising in ancient philosophy. Having taught at Cornell University and the University of Oxford, he joined the University of Cambridge in 1972 as a lecturer in c ...
(2006–7)
*
Robert Harris (2007–8)
*Professor
Richard Seaford
Richard Seaford is a British classicist. He is professor emeritus of classics and ancient history at the University of Exeter. His work focuses on ancient Greek culture, especially that of ancient Athens.
Career
Seaford has published widely on ...
(2008–9)
*Dr Richard Stoneman (2009–10)
*Professor
Christopher Rowe (2010–11)
*Sir
Peter Stothard (2011–12)
*Professor
Robin Osborne (2012–13)
*
Martha Kearney (2013–14)
*Professor
P. J. Rhodes (2014–15).
*Professor Robert Crawford (2015–16)
*Professor
Robert Fowler (2016–17)
*
Mary Beard (2017–18)
*
Mari Williams (2020–)
References
Further reading
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* Philip Hooker, ''The Presidents'', Greece & Rome Vol. 50, The Classical Association: The First Century 1903-2003 pp. 183–190
*''The Manchester and District Branch of the Classical Association, 1904 - 2004''. Manchester: Manchester and District Branch of the Classical Association, 2004
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