John Tresidder Sheppard
Sir John Tresidder Sheppard,
Etonian to become the provost of King's College, Cambridge.[1]
Early life
John Sheppard was educated at Dulwich College.[1] 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
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.[2][3][4] He was knighted in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List.
References
- ^ a b Hodges, S, (1981), God's Gift: A Living History of Dulwich College, pages 88, (Heinemann: London)
- ISBN 0-00-217536-3.
Cambridge boasted the flamboyant homosexual John Tresidder Sheppard of King's…
- ISBN 0-226-02108-4.that to fall for a philistine was not necessarily evidence of a bad state of mind.
Sheppard, when a young fellow…went about proclaiming his infatuation with various handsome young men and tried to convince Lytton Strachey
- ISBN 0-87586-252-7.
