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| - Francis Richard David Goodyear, FBA (1936–1987), commonly known as Frank Goodyear, was an English classicist. Born in Luton on 2 February 1936, he was the son of a tradesman, Francis Goodyear, who later served as mayor of town. He attended Luton Grammar School where he largely taught himself Latin and Greek, before studying classics as a scholar at St John's College, Cambridge; he placed in the first class in both parts of the classical Tripos, securing the , and the . He then studied for a PhD under C. O. Brink at Cambridge; it was awarded in 1961. (en)
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| - Francis Richard David Goodyear, FBA (1936–1987), commonly known as Frank Goodyear, was an English classicist. Born in Luton on 2 February 1936, he was the son of a tradesman, Francis Goodyear, who later served as mayor of town. He attended Luton Grammar School where he largely taught himself Latin and Greek, before studying classics as a scholar at St John's College, Cambridge; he placed in the first class in both parts of the classical Tripos, securing the , and the . He then studied for a PhD under C. O. Brink at Cambridge; it was awarded in 1961. Goodyear was a research fellow at St John's from 1959 to 1960, when he was elected to a fellowship at Queens' College, Cambridge. His early publications earned him a strong reputation among Latinists. In 1966, he moved to Bedford College, London, aged only 30, to occupy the . He was also dean of Faculty of Arts from 1971 to 1973 and vice-principal from 1972 to 1973. When the college merged with Royal Holloway College in 1984 owing to financial difficulties, he resigned his chair in protest. He was then appointed to a visiting professorship at the University of the Witwatersrand, which he held until his death following a heart attack on 24 July 1987, having suffered with alcoholism in his last years; he left a widow, (Cynthia) Rosalie (née Attwood), and a son, Richard. Goodyear had been elected a member of the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in 1974 and a fellow of the British Academy in 1984. He was an advisory editor of the from 1974. (en)
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