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Denys Page was born on 11 May, 1908 in Reading, Berkshire, England, is a British classical scholar and academic (1908–1978). Discover Denys Page's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Born 11 May, 1908
Birthday 11 May
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1908

Sir Denys Lionel Page (11 May 19086 July 1978) was a British classicist and textual critic who served as the 34th Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and the 35th Master of Jesus College, Cambridge.

He is best known for his critical editions of the Ancient Greek lyric poets and tragedians.

Denys Lionel Page was born on 11 May 1908 in Reading, Berkshire, to Frederick Page, a railway engineer at the Great Western Railway and his wife Elsie.

He spent part of his childhood in South Wales but returned to Berkshire and became a student at Newbury Grammar School.

1926

In 1926, he won a scholarship to study classics at Christ Church, Oxford.

Although Page came from a modest background compared to most of his peers, he settled in well at the college and made a number of friends, including the future Lord Chancellor Quintin Hogg and the Labour politician Patrick Gordon Walker.

Among his tutors at Oxford, the archaeologist John Beazley and the Hellenist John Dewar Denniston exerted the greatest influence on his future work.

1930

Coming from a middle-class family in Reading, Page studied classics at Christ Church, Oxford, and served the college as a lecturer for most of the 1930s.

He spent the Second World War working on Ultra intelligence material at the Government Code & Cypher School based at Bletchley Park.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1930 and was awarded a Derby Scholarship.

The award enabled him to spend a year at the University of Vienna with the German philologist Ludwig Radermacher.

1931

In 1931, Page was appointed a lecturer at Christ Church and became a Student (a full member of the college's governing body) the following year.

1936

In 1936, he strongly opposed the candidacy of the Irish scholar E. R. Dodds for the Regius Chair of Greek which was hosted at Christ Church.

Dodds was elected to the position in spite of Page's reservations.

1937

In 1937 he was appointed to the office of junior censor at the college – the Censor Naturalis Philosophiae, responsible for undergraduate discipline.

However, he resigned the position a year later to marry Katharine Elizabeth Dohan, daughter of the American archaeologist Edith Hall Dohan.

They had four daughters, one of whom is the Assyriologist Stephanie Dalley.

1938

His other notable publications include commentaries on Euripides' Medea (1938) and Aeschylus' Agamemnon (1957).

It was during this period that he began working on the plays of the Greek poet Euripides, which culminated in the publication of a critical edition and commentary of Euripides' Medea (1938).

Following in the footsteps of fellow Oxford classicist Edgar Lobel, he also worked on the poems of the archaic Greek lyric poets.

Page assumed an active role in college affairs.

1939

In 1939, Page was recruited to the Government Code and Cypher School and posted to Bletchley Park.

Page's command of German, acquired during his time at Vienna, was put to use in the interpretation activities of Hut 9A.

1942

In 1942 he joined the ISOS "illicit signals" section run by Oliver Strachey and later headed that unit.

In this role, he joined the inter-services XX Committee, and became a Deputy Director of GC&CS.

After the end of World War II in Europe, he was part of a mission to the British headquarters in Colombo, then Singapore and finally Sri Lanka near the end of the war.

1946

After the end of the war, Page returned to Oxford from 1946 and was elected to the office of Senior Proctor (1948).

1950

In 1950, he was elected Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge which he held until his retirement in 1973.

Page's tenure at Oxford came to an abrupt end in 1950: the Regius Chair of Greek at Cambridge University had become vacant after the retirement of Donald Struan Robertson.

Though he did not submit an application, Page was offered the post by the electors and accepted.

He was duly elected a fellow of Trinity College.

At this time, Cambridge provided a less stimulating environment for scholars of the classics than Oxford.

Page's arrival, together with that of the German Latinist Charles Brink, marked a reinvigoration of classical teaching at the university.

Similarly to his time at Oxford, Page actively participated in the running of the university.

1959

Initially a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, Page was appointed master of the university's Jesus College in 1959.

Having been elected to the council of Trinity College soon after his arrival, he was chosen to replace classicist E. M. W. Tillyard as the Master of Jesus College in 1959.

1962

Having published an edition of the poets Sappho and Alcaeus with fellow Oxford classicist Edgar Lobel, Page went on to write what became for some time the standard edition of the remaining Greek lyric poets, Poetae Melici Graeci (PMG) (1962).

1971

In 1971, he was knighted for his services to classical scholarship.

1973

He held this position until his retirement in 1973.

1978

He died of lung cancer in 1978.