John Sinclair Morrison
John Sinclair Morrison CBE FBA | |
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Born | June 15, 1913 |
Died | October 25, 2000 |
Occupation | English classicist |
John Sinclair Morrison
Born in 1913, Morrison was
He was considered an expert on the Greek trireme, the oared warship of the Athenian classical golden age, and is best known as one of the founders in 1982, with
With R. T. Williams, Morrison wrote Greek Oared Ships: 900–322 BC;[1] Long Ships and Round Ships (1980);[2] with John Coates, The Athenian Trireme: the History and Reconstruction of an Ancient Greek Warship (1986);[3] with J. F. Coates, Greek and Roman Oared Warships (1996);[4] and other works.
His elder daughter, Annis Garfield, the classicist and author, was an alumna of Girton College, and was voted the most beautiful girl in Cambridge in 1968.[5]
In 1991 he was awarded the
In 1989, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) by the University of Bath.[6]
He died on 25 October 2000 at the age of 87.
Notes
- ^ Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968; 2nd edition with N. B. Rankov as additional contributor, 1986
- ^ HMSO, London, 1980
- ^ Cambridge University Press, 1986
- ^ Oxbow Books, Oxford, 1996
- ^ Varsity. November 1968.
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