Samuel Dill
1844–1924
Headmaster and classicist. Educated at the Royal Academical Institution and Queen’s College, Belfast, and Lincoln College, Oxford. Fellow and tutor, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1869; librarian and dean; honorary fellow, 1903. High master, Manchester Grammar School, 1877–88. Introduced modern subjects into the curriculum, and forged links between the school and working boys’ clubs. Professor of Greek, Queen’s College, Belfast, 1890–1924. Author of several works on Roman society.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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