Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameSir Roger Aubrey Baskerville MYNORS, 10415
Birth1903
Death1989
FatherRev Aubrey Baskerville MYNORS , 10420 (1865-1937)
Spouses
Birth1911
Death1994
FatherVery Rev Cyril Argentine ALINGTON , 10411 (1872-1955)
MotherHester Margaret LYTTLETON CBE , 10410 (1874-1958)
Notes for Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville MYNORS
Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors (1903–1989) was a British classical scholar.
Mynors was educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford and won a scholarship to Eton. He was Newcastle Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton and Balliol, he was a friend of Cyril Connolly.[1] He was Hertford and Craven Scholar, and became a Fellow of Balliol in 1926. In 1944, he became Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge University and in 1953 became Professor at Oxford.[2]

He was a member of the Literary Committee for the New English Bible and worked on a new edition of Bede's Ecclesiastical History and various Latin translations. In 1963, he was knighted and in 1966 became president of the Classical Association. He was an expert on ancient church manuscripts. He was an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society and received honorary degrees from many universities in Britain and at the University of Toronto.


Personal life

Mynors married Lavinia Alington, daughter of Cyril Alington, headmaster of Eton and Dean of Durham, and sister of Giles Alington, a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Roger Mynors was killed in a car crash at the age of 86.[3] "He had been working on his catalogue of the manuscripts in Hereford Cathedral Library, and was driving back to Treago, his country home at St Weonards near the Welsh border. As he left the cathedral he was heard to say that he had had a good day".

Mynors' brother Humphrey became a baronet.
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