William Geoffrey Arnott FBA (17 September 1930 – 1 December 2010) was a British Hellenist who was Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Leeds.
[1] He studied classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1952 with a first class BA (converted as usual to an Oxbridge MA).
Other fields of his work included Euripides, the Hellenistic poets, the Greek predecessors of the novel, Aristaenetus, Athenaeus, and ancient ornithology.
In 1981 he became a member of the Società Italiana per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica and in 1999 was made a fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
Arnott was a member of his local branch of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and from 1981 to 1984 he was President of the Leeds Birdwatchers Club.