Papers of Edward Ernest Sikes

4 volumes of manuscript notes for lectures on Martial, Greek and Latin verse compositions.

Born in Halstead, Kent in 1867, Sikes entered St John's College in 1886. He graduated in 1889 with a first class in the Classical Tripos, winning the Browne medal for a Latin Ode. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1891 and served his College as tutor (1900-25) and President (1925-37). During the academic year 1926-7 he was at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor.
Sikes translated and edited a number of classical texts, and wrote on Greek and Roman poetry and Lucretius. He was President of the University Philological Society (1920), and, with his brother Francis Henry Sikes, donated a collection of British molluscs to the Natural History Museum, London. He married Mabel Katherine Garrett in 1901.

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Born in Halstead, Kent in 1867, Sikes entered St John's College in 1886. He graduated in 1889 with a first class in the Classical Tripos, winning the Browne medal for a Latin Ode. He was elected to a Fellowship in 1891 and served his College as tutor (1900-25) and President (1925-37). During the academic year 1926-7 he was at Harvard University as a Visiting Professor.
Sikes translated and edited a number of classical texts, and wrote on Greek and Roman poetry and Lucretius. He was President of the University Philological Society (1920), and, with his brother Francis Henry Sikes, donated a collection of British molluscs to the Natural History Museum, London. He married Mabel Katherine Garrett in 1901.

Preferred citation: St John's College Library, Papers of Edward Ernest Sikes

30 Mar 2006

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