John Dewar Denniston (4 March 1887 in India – 2 May 1949 in Church Stretton)[1] was a British classical scholar.
His parents were James Lawson Denniston, of the Indian Civil Service, and Agnes Guthrie.
He took a First in Classical Moderations (Greek and Latin) in 1908 and a Second in Literae Humaniores (philosophy and ancient history) in 1910.
He was twice wounded; he gained the distinctions of Croix de Guerre and O.B.E.
[3] He is best known and remembered for his work The Greek Particles, which on his death was revised and expanded from his later notes in a second edition by Kenneth Dover.