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4 unusual facts about Literae Humaniores


Albert Bythesea Weigall

He received second class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1862, and the following year travelled to Australia after a sea voyage was recommended for him to recover from illness.

Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford

The Faculty organises teaching and research - the main undergraduate programme being known as Literae Humaniores.

Hartlepool by-election, 1910

Gritten was born in London and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he won the Donald E. Bridgman Essay Prize, and graduated with honours in Literae Humaniores.

John Alfred Spender

He was educated at Bath College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he did well in his studies but missed a first in Greats due to illness.


Huw Owen

Owen was born on 30 December 1926 in Cardiff and was educated at Cardiff High School and Jesus College, Oxford, where he studied Literae Humaniores and Theology.

John Wordsworth

He studied at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he was awarded a First in Classical Moderations (1863) and a Second in Greats (1865) (MA 1868).

Robert Cyril Layton Perkins

Perkins was born on 15 November 1866 at Badminton, Gloucestershire and was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, St. Albans – his father, Rev Charles Perkins, was the headmaster – and at Merchant Taylors' School before obtaining a scholarship in classics to Jesus College, Oxford in 1885.

Simon Hornblower

Born in 1949, he was educated at Eton College, where he was a scholar, at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in 1969, and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1971 (BA and hence subsequently MA) and a DPhil in 1978 with a thesis entitled Maussollos of Karia.


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Alex Hearn

After winning a scholarship to enable him to go to Charterhouse School, Godalming, Hearn went onto to study Classics (Literae Humaniores) at New College, Oxford University where he majored in Hellenistic culture and Ancient Athenian Democracy.