23 Facts About Kenneth Dover

Kenneth Dover was president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, from 1976 to 1986.

Kenneth Dover was born in London, the only child of Percy Dover and Dorothy Healey.

Kenneth Dover was educated at St Paul's School and Balliol College, Oxford.

Kenneth Dover served with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War and was mentioned in dispatches for his service in Italy.

In 1955, Kenneth Dover was appointed Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, and was twice dean of the university's Faculty of Arts during his twenty-one years there.

Kenneth Dover was elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975.

Kenneth Dover received a knighthood two years later for services to Greek scholarship.

In 1976, Kenneth Dover became president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a post he held for ten years.

Kenneth Dover attempted to help Aston with his problems for several years but Aston's erratic behaviour increasingly exasperated him and matters came to a head in 1985.

Kenneth Dover returned to St Andrews as the university's chancellor in 1981.

Kenneth Dover was the first chancellor in the university's history to be neither a peer nor an archbishop.

Kenneth Dover had previously been responsible for supervising the second edition of JD Denniston's The Greek Particles ; though Dover is not named on the title page, his signed preface notes that he made various cuts, additions and changes.

Since Athenian speechwriters adapted their style to the personality of their clients, Kenneth Dover argued, it is difficult to make firm judgments about the authorship of speeches on the basis of style.

In particular, Kenneth Dover made use of copious evidence from vase painting as a counterweight to the idealized picture of homoerotic relationships found in Plato.

Kenneth Dover received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe.

Kenneth Dover was a foreign member of the American and the Royal Netherlands Academies of Arts and Sciences since 1979.

Beyond his academic honours and pursuits, Kenneth Dover was well known for his skill and devotion to bird watching and was considered one of Britain's finest birders.

Kenneth Dover achieved this by studying photographs and admitted to having occasional problems identifying new students when beards were in fashion.

Kenneth Dover was the subject of an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme In the Psychiatrist's Chair, presented by Anthony Clare.

Kenneth Dover featured in a BBC Television series The Greeks, presented by Christopher Burstall.

Kenneth Dover resided in St Andrews, Fife, where he and his family had a home from around 1960.

Kenneth Dover married Audrey Ruth Latimer in March 1947; Lady Dover died in December 2009 after 62 years of marriage.

Kenneth Dover died in Cupar on 7 March 2010, survived by a son and daughter.