Wallace Lindsay

[1] Educated at Edinburgh Academy, the University of Glasgow, where he was Blackstone Scholar, and Balliol College, Oxford.

He was a fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1880 to 1899, when he was appointed as Professor of Humanity (as the professorship in Latin was called) at the University of St Andrews.

[2] He also wrote articles in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica and notes on the palaeography of the Cathach of St.

Through prolific scholarship and editing a large number of texts, including Plautus, Terence, Martial in the OCT, and Festus, and Nonius Marcellus in Teubner editions, he influenced almost every area of Latin research.

[5] Lindsay died at St Andrews[6] after a collision with a motor bike.