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Born in Rugby, 16 August 1867; educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church Oxford; First class Classical Moderation, 1888; First class Classics, 1890; D Litt, Oxford, 1910; Honorary PhD, Athens, 1914; Assistant to Professor of Greek, University of Glasgow, 1891-1897; Professor of Greek, University College Cardiff, 1898-1908; Professor of Greek, University of Manchester, 1908-1913; Principal of King's College London, 1913-1920; Fellow of King's College London, 1914; founded the School of Slavonic Studies, King's College London, 1915; Acting Chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League; Member of the Council of the Hellenic Society, the Serbian Society, the Serbian Relief Fund, the United Russia Societies Association; British-Italian League, the Anglo-Roumanian Society and the Anglo-Spanish Society; Honorary member of the Archaeological Society of Athens; Grand Commander Order of King George of Greece; Commander Order of the Saviour; Order of St Sava; died 14 May 1920.
Publications: Florilegium Tironis Graecum: Simple passages for Greek unseen translation chosen with a view to their literary interest with William Charles Flamstead Walters, (Macmillan & Co, London, 1904, reissued in 1930); The discoveries in Crete and their bearing on the history of ancient civilisation (John Murray, London, 1907, reissued in 1969); Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Report of the International Commission into the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars (reprint of review from The Athenaeum, London, 1914); The New Greece (reprinted from the Quarterly Review, London, 1914); The Abdication of King Constantine, June 12, 1917 (a reprint of articles of the Anglo-Hellenic League, London, 1917).