Frederick Brittain (24 October 1893 – 14 March 1969) was an English Latinist.
Born on 24 October 1893 and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Barnet and Jesus College, Cambridge, Brittain studied medieval languages at university.
After graduating, he taught privately and lived at the Oratory of the Good Shepherd in Cambridge before being elected to a fellowship at his old college in 1937.
Alongside works on Saint Giles (1928) and Saint Radegund (1926), he also wrote biographies of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (1947) and Bernard Manning (1942), books about South Mimms (where he lived and was Churchwarden), and a history of his college's boat club (1962, with H. B.
[1] The main entry gate to the churchyard of St. Giles, South Mimms is dedicated to his memory.