Lorimer, [Elizabeth] Hilda L[ockhart] ♀

Education

Student U.C.D. [University College Dundee] 1892-1893 Sen. Lat.

Birth/childhood

Born 30.5.1873 daughter of Rev. Robert Lorimer, Free Church minister Strathmartine and Isabella Lockhart Robertson. [Minister]

Attended Dundee High School.

Career

Also at Girton College - Classical Tripos, M.A. 1920.

Tutor in Classics, Somerville College 1896. Fellow of Somerville College 1922. University lecturer in Homeric Archaeology 1929. Honorary Fellow Somerville College 1941. Retired in 1939, but came back for the war until 1946. Hon. M.A. Cambridge 1948. [Teacher, university lecturer, classicist]

Publications

Homer and the monuments. (London: Macmillan, 1950)

Some notes on dress in Homer and in archaic Greek art. (London: John Murray, 1912)

Professor Bethe on Homer. (London: John Murray, 1930)

Tradition and design in the Iliad.(London: John Murray, 1931)

Homer's use of the past.(London: Macmillan, 1929)

Death

Died 1.3.1954.

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