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William John Woodhouse (7 November 1866 – 26 October 1937) was a classical scholar and author, professor of Greek at the University of Sydney〔L. F. Fitzhardinge, '(Woodhouse, William John (1866 - 1937) )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 12, Melbourne University Press, 1990, pp 561-562. Retrieved 17 March 2010〕 ==Early life== Woodhouse was born at Clifton, Westmorland, England, the son of Richard Woodhouse, a station master, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Titterington.〔 Educated at Sedbergh School, Yorkshire, Woodhouse won an open exhibition to Queen's College, Oxford, (B.A., 1889; M.A., 1895).〔 He graduated with a first class in classical and a first class in the final school of ''Literae Humaniores'', was appointed a Newton student at the British School at Athens, and during 1890 travelled in Greece and directed the excavations at Megalopolis.〔 〕 After another year at Oxford Woodhouse was elected Craven fellow and returned to Greece for two years, his main work being in connexion with the explorations at Aetolia. Woodhouse was awarded the Conington memorial prize at Oxford in 1894 for an essay which was expanded into a substantial volume, ''Aetolia. Its Geography, Topography and Antiquities'' (1897).〔 In 1897 Woodhouse was appointed lecturer in classics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor; on 28 March 1897 at the parish church, Sedbergh, Yorkshire, he married Eleanor Emma Jackson.〔 In 1900 Woodhouse was appointed lecturer in ancient history and political philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William John Woodhouse」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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