Eric Walter Handley, CBE (12 November 1926 – 17 January 2013) was a British classical scholar, noted for his work on the Greek new comic poet Menander.
[1][2] Handley supported the JACT Greek summer school at Bryanston in Dorset, acting as a tutor on a number of occasions, and lecturing on Menander.
[4] He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, having won a scholarship to the private boys school, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he matriculated at the age of sixteen.
She was headmistress of Camden School for Girls (1971–85) and President of the Classical Association (1996–7).
In the 1983 New Year Honours, Handley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of his work as Professor of Greek at University College, London.