John Crook (classicist)

He received a London County Council scholarship to attend St. John's College, Cambridge, in 1939 which he followed with postgraduate study at the University of Oxford.

He returned to St. John's in 1951 as a Fellow of the College and University Lecturer in Classics, rising to become Professor of Ancient History.

[1] To mark his 80th birthday in 2001, he was presented with a Festschrift, Thinking Like a Lawyer, edited by Paul McKechnie.

He served in the Middle East and North Africa before being captured during the allied landings in Italy in 1943.

[1] He began his military service as a private, but ended as a sergeant in the Royal Army Educational Corps.