27 Facts About James Morwood

James Henry Weldon Morwood was an English classicist and author.

James Morwood taught at Harrow School, where he was Head of Classics, and at Oxford University, where he was a Fellow of Wadham College, and Dean.

James Morwood wrote almost thirty books, ranging from biography to translations and academic studies of Classical literature.

James Morwood's father was a doctor from Belfast, his mother a Californian and graduate of UCLA.

James Morwood spent his first years in Ulster before his family moved to Oxshott in Surrey after the Second World War.

James Morwood attended Danes Hill preparatory school, where he studied Greek from the age of 11.

James Morwood then moved on to Merton College, Oxford to obtain his Diploma of Education.

James Morwood taught Classics and English at Harrow School from 1966 to 1996, and was Head of Classics from 1979.

James Morwood produced many school and house plays at Harrow, in the process inspiring some notable thespians.

In 1996 James Morwood moved to Oxford University as Grocyn Lecturer in charge of the language teaching for the Classics Faculty, retiring from this role in 2003.

James Morwood was appointed editor of the Wadham Gazette in 2003, and became an Emeritus Fellow in 2006.

James Morwood continued to teach Wadham undergraduates Greek tragedy, Homer and prose composition.

James Morwood had a long association with the Joint Association of Classical Teachers and with its Greek Summer School, which was launched in London in 1968, continued at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and is currently held annually at Bryanston School in Dorset.

James Morwood taught beginners, intermediate and advanced groups at the school regularly since 1970.

James Morwood served as its Director of Studies, and on seven occasions as its director, starting in 1986 when he took over from the founder, David Raeburn.

James Morwood taught adult courses on Classics and English Literature at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall.

James Morwood was editor of Ad familiares, the on-line publication of Classics for All.

James Morwood provided notes for the other two volumes, Orestes and Other Plays, and Heracles and Other Plays which were translated by Robin Waterfield.

In 2007 James Morwood revisited Euripides with a new scholarly edition of Suppliant Women.

James Morwood's book is a lot more accessible, and less technical, but less comprehensive in its approach.

The many qualities of this volume will enable numerous readers to enjoy the discovery of this magnificent play which, as James Morwood reminds us, has too long been considered as a minor work by Euripides, a play of political propaganda.

James Morwood was co-author with Maurice Balme of The Oxford Latin Course, published in three Parts from 1987 to 1992.

James Morwood joins the army of Brutus, only to be defeated after a brief campaign at the Battle of Philippi, after which he returns to Italy.

James Morwood was no ivory tower classicist, and he enjoyed a good fight.

James Morwood died suddenly while swimming in the sea off northern Greece on 10 September 2017.

At the inquest in Oxford, the Coroner accepted the diagnosis of the Oxford pathologist that James Morwood had died of 'dry drowning'.

Stephen Heyworth in The Daily Telegraph wrote that working with James Morwood was one of the best things he had done, 'I learnt so much, not least about getting on with it and bringing work to completion.