Engels classicus (Oxford 13 Apr. 1871), studeerde te Oxford (Balliol College) en is Hon. Fellow van dit College.
Bibl,: Text of Lucretius (Bibliotheca Oxoniensis) (1898); Religion of Ancient Rome (1907); Translation of Lucretius (1910); Ovid Fasti III (1921); The Legacy of Rome (1925); Epicurus, the extant remains (1926); The Greek Atomists and Epicurus (1928); Phases in the Religion of Ancient Rome (1932); Religion in Virgil (i935); T. Lucretii De Rerum Natura, ed. with Prolegomena, Text and Grit. Apparatus, Transl. and Comm. (Oxford 1947), 3 din.