Donald Russell (classicist)

Donald Andrew Frank Moore Russell, FBA (13 October 1920 – 9 February 2020) was a British classicist and academic.

His parents were Samuel Charles Russell (1878–1979) and Laura Moore (1876–1966), both school teachers, who had married in 1912.

[4] He took Honour Moderations in June 1940, and then studied ancient history and philosophy as part of Greats from 1940 to 1941.

[7] He was subsequently posted to the Japanese Military Attaché Section at Bletchley Park and became Senior Translator there.

As of October 2013, Russell was just the third fellow in the history of St John's to have reached the 65 year anniversary milestone of his election to the fellowship.