Patrick Wilkinson (scholar)

Lancelot Patrick Wilkinson (1 June 1907 – 23 April 1985) was an English classical scholar, a don at the University of Cambridge and Dean of King's College.

During the Second World War, Wilkinson worked for Bletchley Park, the Allied code-breaking centre, and was posted overseas.

In March 1943, after the success of Operation Torch, he was posted to Algiers in French North Africa, and then to Malta, where he worked in the Lascaris Battery.

[4] After the war, Wilkinson returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of King's College and was also Reader in Latin Literature in the university.

[8] With his friend Robert Bolgar, between 1969 and 1977 Wilkinson organized a series of international conferences at Cambridge with the title "Classical Influences on European Culture".