T. R. Glover

Terrot Reaveley Glover (23 July 1869 – 26 May 1943) was a lecturer of classical literature. He was a Latinist, and is known for translating Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses to Latin.

Life

Glover was born in Bristol where his father, the Rev. Richard Glover, was minister of Tyndale Baptist Church. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read classics. He was then made a fellow of St John's and Professor of Latin at Queen’s University, Kingston, in Ontario, Canada, before becoming a lecturer in classics and, later on, Public Orator at the University of Cambridge until his retirement in 1939 (when he was succeeded in the latter role by W. K. C. Guthrie). Glover also wrote books, including The Jesus of History and Poets and Puritans.

He was a representative of Cambridge University at University College, Bristol, until he resigned. Hansard records that his resignation and the opinions of Geraldine Hodgson and Professor Gerothwohl concerning "grave reflections upon the administration of the university" were raised in Parliament as a pretext for a Public Enquiry on 1 May 1913. The enquiry was not authorised.

Glover was a Baptist and attended St Andrews Street Baptist Church in Cambridge, where his friend Melbourn Aubrey was minister until 1925. Aubrey recalled that for Glover "the Old Testament came to have less and less value and in his last years he appeared to resent ministers taking texts or even lessons from it." Glover had six children. He conducted services in Appleton chapel at Harvard University on 19 December 1923 while visiting the university.