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Born 1903; educated at Highgate School and St John's College, Cambridge; Classical Tutor, Hackney and New College, London, 1926-1935; Reader in Ancient History, New College, London, 1935-1959; part-time teaching at University College London, 1941-1942; Professor of Ancient History, King's College London, 1959-1970; Governor of New College, London, 1930-1980; Vice President of the Society for Promotion of Roman Studies; Acting Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, London, 1964; Fellow of King's College London, 1970; [retired, 1970]; Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, 1970-1983; died 1983.
Publications: editor, with N G L Hammond, of the The Oxford classical dictionary (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970); editor of Atlas of the Classical World (Nelson, London and Edinburgh, 1959); editor, with H E Butler, of Livy, Book XXX (Methuen, London, 1939); A history of the Roman world from 753 to 146 BC (Methuen, London, 1935); From the Gracchi to Nero: a history of Rome from 133 B.C. to A.D. 68 (Methuen, London, 1959); Roman politics (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1951); Scipio Africanus: soldier and politician (Thames and Hudson, London, 1970); Scipio Africanus in the Second Punic War...Thirlwall Prize Essay (University Press, Cambridge, 1930); The elephant in the Greek and Roman world (Thames and Hudson, London, 1974); The Etruscan cities and Rome (Thames and Hudson, London, 1967); Shorter atlas of the classical world (Thomas Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh, 1962); editor of The grandeur that was Rome (Sidgwick and Jackson, London, 1961); Roman Britain: outpost of the Empire (Thames and Hudson, London, 1979); Festivals and ceremonies of the Roman Republic (Thames and Hudson, London, c1981); A history of Rome down to the reign of Constantine (Macmillan, London, 1975).