Michael Winterbottom, FBA (born 22 September 1934) is an English classical scholar and author, who was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2001.
During the Second World War, his family moved from Sale to Torquay, then to Walsall before settling in London.
[1] After National Service in the Royal Signals between 1956 and 1958, he did graduate work at Merton College and then Christ Church, Oxford.
[1] He has worked mainly on Latin prose texts dating from the Roman Republic to the High Middle Ages.
[1] Complete bibliography is available in Michael Winterbottom, Style and Scholarship: Latin Prose from Gildas to Raffaele Regio (ed.