Francis Storr
, 1839 - 1919
Francis Storr (b. 28 February 1839 Otley, Suffolk) was a British classicist, teacher, translator, editor and author. He published translations of Sophocles, and is particularly known for translating the Oedipus trilogy. He also edited and wrote several stories for the child’s myth anthology Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and the Men of Old (1911). He was editor of the Journal of Education, and wrote entries for the Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography.
Storr was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, and taught at Marlborough College and Merchant Taylors’ Boys’ School.
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Worldcat (accessed: August 2, 2022).
Wikidata (accessed: August 2, 2022).
Wikisource (accessed: August 2, 2022).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, robin.diver@hotmail.com
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