Engels classicus (in China 8 Apr. 1898), studeerde te Oxford (New College) en behaalde in 1937 de doctorstitel. Hij was van 1922 tot 1938 fellow and tutor en is sedert 1938 warden van Wadham College te Oxford.
Bibl. (voornaamste publicaties): Vertaling van de Pythische Oden van Pindarus (1928, in samenw. m. H. T. Wade-Gery); Tradition and design in the Iliad (1930); Ancient Greek literature (in de Home University Series); Pindari Carmina (Oxford Classical Texts 1935); Greek lyric poetry (1936); Early Greek elegists (1938); The heritage of symbolism (1943); Sophoclean tragedy (1944); From Virgil to Milton (1945)* A Book of Russian Verse (1947), A second Book of Russian Verse (1948).
