Reginald Hackforth
Reginald Hackforth
Life
Early life
Hackforth was born in London. After attending
Academic career
After a brief period lecturing at the
Hackforth produced two chapters for the Cambridge Ancient History on the history of Sicily in part of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, which utilised his interpretation of the literary evidence of Pindar, Bacchylides and the Epistles of Plato.[4]
Hackforth was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1946.[5]
Personal
Hackforth was the younger son of J.P. Hackforth.[2] In 1922 he married Lily Mines, daughter of H.R. Mines, H.M. Inspector of Schools,[6] who was buried with him in the
Hackforth's Cambridge address was 4 Selwyn Gardens.[6] He died in Cambridge, aged 69.
Publications
- The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1913.
- The composition of Plato's Apology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
- Plato's examination of pleasure: a translation of the Philebus with an introduction and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945
- Plato's Phaedrus: translated with an introduction and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952.
- Plato's Phaedo: translated with an introduction and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
References
- ^ Catologus Philogorum Classicorum 1880-1980
- ^ a b c Obituary in The Times 7 May 1957
- ^ Donald Struan Robertson in The Times 13 May 1957
- ^ Frank Adcock in The Times 9 May 1957
- ^ British Academy Fellowship entry
- ^ a b Who Was Who, London : A. & C. Black, 3rd ed., 1967, p. 466
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