Antony Andrewes

Antony Andrewes (12 June 1910 – 13 June 1990) was a classical scholar and historian. He was born in Tavistock, Devon, England, and was educated at Winchester College, Winchester (1923-29), and at New College, Oxford (1929-33). He was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford (1933-46) and of New College, Oxford (1946-53) and was Wykeham Professor of Ancient History from 1953 until his retirement in 1977. Andrewes was awarded the MBE (Military) in 1944, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1957. He died in 1990, the day after his 80th birthday.

Works

• The Greek tyrants (1956)
• The Greeks (1967); later republished as Greek society

References

• The Greeks (biographical sketch)
• Pembroke College, Fellows in the 1930s