R. A. B. Mynors
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Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors was an English classicist and medievalist who held the senior chairs of Latin at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. A textual critic, he was an expert in the
Portrait photograph of Rogers Mynors
Treago Castle, the Mynors family's country residence
Mynors edited the standard edition of the Aeneid. This 15th-century manuscript contains the beginning of the poem's sixth book.
A leaf from the Saint Petersburg Bede which Mynors used in his edition of the Ecclesiastical History
George Orwell
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Eric Arthur Blair was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition
R. A. B. Mynors
…entered Eton College as a King's Scholar. At Eton, he was part of a generation of pupils that included the historian Steven Runciman and the author George Orwell. His precocious interest in Latin literature and its transmission was fostered by the encouragement of two of his teachers, Cyril Alington and M. R…
Orwell in 1943
Orwell's birthplace in Motihari, Bihar, India
The Blair family home at Shiplake, Oxfordshire
Blair's time at St Cyprian's School inspired his essay "Such, Such Were the Joys".