Sir John Tresidder Sheppard, MBE ((1881-11-07)7 November 1881 – (1968-05-07)7 May 1968) was an eminent classicist and the first non-Etonian to become the provost of King's College, Cambridge.
Early life
John Sheppard was educated at Dulwich College. He went up to King's College, Cambridge, where he studied Classics and won the Porson Prize.
Career
He was a lecturer in classics at King's College of Cambridge University from 1908 to 1933 and was provost from 1933 to 1954. During the Second World War, he performed intelligence work, for which he was appointed MBE; he was knighted in 1950 for his services to Greek. During his long career, he translated many famous Greek classics, and published several books on the subject, including The Pattern of the Iliad, Greek Tragedy, and Aeschylus & Sophocles: Their Work and Influence.
Personal life
John Sheppard was openly homosexual. He was knighted in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List.
References
- ^ Hodges, S, (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, pages 88, (Heinemann: London)
- Costello, John (1998). The Mask of Treachery. Collins. p. 359. ISBN 0-00-217536-3.
Cambridge boasted the flamboyant homosexual John Tresidder Sheppard of King's…
- Annan, Noel (2001). The Dons: Mentors, Eccentrics and Geniuses. University of Chicago Press. p. 115. ISBN 0-226-02108-4.
Sheppard, when a young fellow…went about proclaiming his infatuation with various handsome young men and tried to convince Lytton Strachey that to fall for a philistine was not necessarily evidence of a bad state of mind.
- Tamagne, Florence (2004). A history of homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919–1939. Algora Publishing. p. 173. ISBN 0-87586-252-7.
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| Preceded byAlan England Brooke | Provost of King's College, Cambridge 1933-1954 |
Succeeded byStephen Glanville |
- 1881 births
- 1968 deaths
- 20th-century English male writers
- Alumni of King's College, Cambridge
- English classical scholars
- Knights Bachelor
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- People educated at Dulwich College
- Provosts of King's College, Cambridge
- Presidents of the Cambridge Union
- British gay writers
- Gay academics