Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge

Who was Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge?

Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge was a British classicist and one of the greatest authorities on the theatre of ancient Greece in the first half of the 20th century.

Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth Rectory, the son of the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, a naturalist and entomologist.

He served as a fellow and tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, Professor of Greek at the University of Edinburgh. and Vice-chancellor of Sheffield University from 1930 to 1938. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1934.