22 Facts About James Strachan-Davidson

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author of books on Roman history.

James Strachan-Davidson was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1907 until his death in 1916.

James Strachan-Davidson was the eldest among three brothers and had a half-sister from his father's first marriage.

James Strachan-Davidson's mother died while they were still children and his father remarried.

James Strachan-Davidson was enrolled at Leamington College at the age of eleven as day-boy.

James Strachan-Davidson won the Jenkyns Exhibition in the college in 1864 and was appointed as a fellow of the college in 1866 after his finals.

James Strachan-Davidson graduated from Oxford with first-class honours in both Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores.

James Strachan-Davidson actively participated in the Oxford Union, held the posts of secretary and librarian, and was appointed as the president of the society in 1867.

James Strachan-Davidson was appointed as the Classical tutor at Balliol College in 1872 and mainly lectured in the field of Roman history.

James Strachan-Davidson became the senior dean of the college in 1875, who was the president of the college's Common Room, and acting head in the master's absence.

James Strachan-Davidson was elected to the chairmanship of the board of Faculty of Arts in 1893.

James Strachan-Davidson received the honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford for his contributions to the study of Roman criminal law.

James Strachan-Davidson was firmly liberal on the matter of education and University reform and espoused the importance of character and attainments over party adherence for University representatives.

James Strachan-Davidson was consulted extensively by the Civil Service Commissioners during the reformation of the entrance examination of the Indian Civil Service.

James Strachan-Davidson believed that the mental and moral discipline, wide view and grasp of fundamentals granted by the study of Literae Humaniores was crucial to the Service and drew up a memorandum to that effect, for its Royal Commission in June 1913.

James Strachan-Davidson was devoted to his work at Balliol College and never married.

James Strachan-Davidson believed that the college should be as "wife and children" to a fellow of the college.

James Strachan-Davidson was a friend of the English author Paul Ferdinand Willert and was godfather to his daughter, Dorothy.

James Strachan-Davidson was close to his family doctor Robert Slack whose daughter Mary was his godchild.

James Strachan-Davidson had another goddaughter, Margaret Bowlby, daughter of Henry Bowlby of Lancing College.

James Strachan-Davidson died on 28 March 1916 due to cerebral hemorrhage caused by atherosclerosis and was buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.

James Strachan-Davidson had acquired around 1500 to 1600 Greek and Roman coins during his many visits to Egypt, Italy, and Sicily.