Angus Hulton was Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Sheffield when I read Classics there from 1968-71. He was a very austere man whom I can remember lecturing us on Euripides' Hippolytus-Spencer Barrett's commentary on the Hippolytus had just been published. By today's standards maybe, he didn't engage with his students too closely but I think he was friendly in a shy way. When I married my wife Rosemary half way through the course (he taught her Greek prose composition), he never quite coped with the fact that she now had a married name! However, Rosemary still writes very good Greek due to him and as the piece below shows there can be no doubt about his wonderful, old-fashioned scholarship. I doubt whether many people (though there are some!) now teaching Classics at University level (or any level come to that!) could produce such exquisite Latin verse from the prose of the then Manchester Guardian! Peter Hulse
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