Distinguished Scholar
SiR RONALD SYME, New Zealand’s most distinguished classical scholar, returned to New Zealand recently for a brief visit, and while he was in Auckland Cherry Raymond took the opportunity to prepare another Portrait from Life, to be heard in the National Women’s Session from the YAs and YZs on Wednesday, October 21, and to be repeated later in the Sunday National Programme (on November 15). Sir Ronald, who is Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford, last year published his masterly and exhaustive two-volume study of Tacitus and this year was knighted in the British Birthday Honours. Born in New Plymouth, he began studying at Victoria and was appointed lecturer in Classics at Auckland while still an undergraduate. He sat his final examinations as Acting-Professor. In 1925 he went with a post-graduate scholarship to Oriel College, Oxford, and four years later he became a Fellow of
Trinity, where he remained until 1949 when he went to his present position. He spent the war years first as Press Attaché at the British Embassy in Belgrade, then combined diplomatic and university activities in Turkey.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 18
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187Distinguished Scholar New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 18
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