Gilbert Murray
When Gilbert Murray received the Order of Merit, the London TIMESsaid, “He might equally have earned it by his success in transmitting the light of Hellas to a generation that is forgetting the Greek tongue —or by the noble failure of his long works for peace.” Some of the interesting facets of this great classicist’s career are shown in the portrait by his former student and friend, C. MAURICE BOWRA.Sir Maurice is himself a British classical scholar and literary historian, and since 1951 has been vice chancellor of Oxford University.