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Robert Alexander Neil
Born(1852-12-26)December 26, 1852
DiedJune 19, 1901(1901-06-19) (aged 48)

Robert Alexander Neil (26 December 1852– 19 June 1901), who generally published as R. A. Neil, was a Scottish classical scholar.

Neil was born on 26 December 1852.[1]

He became a close friend of James Adam, another Scottish classicist and Aberdeen alumnus who had taken a fellowship at Emmanuel College in December 1884.[2] The two kept a strict appointment for Sunday lunch together, which lasted from their meeting until Neil's death, sixteen years later.[3] Neil was best man at Adam's wedding to the classicist Adela Marion Kensington in 1890,[4] and in 1891 Adam named his first son, Neil Kensington Adam, after him.[5]

He served for several years on the council of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. On Neil's death, the society's president, Richard Jebb, described him as "a classical scholar of rare learning and acumen".[6]

Neil died on the morning of 19 June 1901, following a short illness.[7]

References

  1. ^ Giles 1912b, p. 1.
  2. ^ Giles 1912a, p. 13; Oakley 2011, p. 26.
  3. ^ Oakley 2011, p. 26.
  4. ^ Oakley 2011, p. 26. For the date, see Giles 1912a, p. 13.
  5. ^ Carrington, Hills & Webb 1974, p. 2; Oakley 2011, p. 26.
  6. ^ The Journal of Hellenic Studies 1901, p. xxxvi.
  7. ^ The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society 1901, p. 24.

Works cited

  • Carrington, A.; Hills, G. J.; Webb, K. R. (1974). "Neil Kensington Adam 1891–1973". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 20: 1–26. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1974.0001. JSTOR 769631.
  • Giles, Peter (1912a). "Adam, James" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement . pp. 11–14 – via Wikisource.
  • Giles, Peter (1912b). "Neil, Robert Alexander" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement . Vol. 3. pp. 1–2 – via Wikisource.
  • Oakley, Ann (2011). A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781849664684.
  • <!=-- Anon. --> (1901). "Proceedings of the Numismatic Society: Session 1900–1901". The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Numismatic Society. 4. 1: 1–35. JSTOR 42679755.
  • "Session 1900–1901". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 21: xxxiii–xliv. 1901. JSTOR 623860.
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