Guy Lee

Arthur Guy Lee (5 November 1918 – 31 July 2005), known informally as Guy Lee, was a British Classical scholar and poet. He was particularly notable as a Latinist for his work on the Roman poets Ovid, Propertius, and Catullus; he also translated Virgil's Eclogues, Tibullus, and Persius.

Life and career

Lee was educated at Glebe House, a preparatory school in Hunstanton, and later at Loretto School, a public school in Musselburgh, Scotland, before going up to St John's College, Cambridge. He taught at the University of Cambridge for most of his career, where he was admitted as a fellow of St John's College in 1946.

In the Second World War, Lee joined the British military, and was posted in Iceland, where he learned Icelandic and earned a military award for his work on ciphers. He was later posted to French North Africa, Belgium, Italy, Norway, and Germany. He returned to Cambridge after the war.[1]

Upon returning to Cambridge, Lee served as a librarian, tutor, praelector, and lecturer of classics at various times.[2][3] He died in Cambridge in 2005, and is buried at Ascension Parish Burial Ground.

References
  1. "Guy Lee". The Times. The Times. 10 August 2005. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  2. "Guy Lee - Obituaries - News". The Independent. 8 September 2005. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. Lee, Arthur Guy (1984). Virgil - The Eclogues (Second ed.). United Kingdom: Penguin Group. ISBN 978-0-140-44419-3.


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