Arthur Blackburne Poynton

Arthur Blackburne Poynton (28 June 1867 – 8 October 1944) was an English classical scholar. He was a Fellow and later Master of University College, Oxford.[1][2]

Early life and family

Poynton was born in Kelston, Somerset, the son of the Rev. Francis John Poynton (1831–1903) and Frances Mary Billinge (1837–1930). He was educated at Marlborough College and went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1885.[2][3]

In 1896 he married Mary Sargent (1867–1952), the daughter of John Young Sargent, a Fellow of Hertford College. They had two sons (the classical scholar John Blackburne Poynton (1900–1995) and the civil servant Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton (1905–1996)) and three daughters.

Career

Poynton was a Fellow and tutor at University College, Oxford, from 1894, and Bursar from 1900 to 1935.[1] At University College, he was a tutor to the author and academic C. S. Lewis[4] from 1919 to 1920 and the classical scholar E. R. Dodds.[5]

He was Public Orator at the University of Oxford for seven years.[1][6] He delivered the oration for Albert Einstein at his honorary degree ceremony in the Sheldonian Theatre on 23 May 1931.[7]

Poynton died on 8 October 1944 as the result of a motor car accident in the High Street at Oxford.[1]

References
  1. Bickerton, Fred, Fred of Oxford. London: Evans Brothers Limited, 1953, pages 136–137.
  2. "Obituary: Dr. A. B. Poynton". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 10 October 1944. p. 6.
  3. Robin Darwall-Smith, Index of BJs contemporaries Archived 21 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Balliol College, Oxford, 2009.
  4. Kathryn Lindskoog, C. S. Lewis and the Ceremonies at Oxford University (1917–1925), The Lewis Legacy, Issue 79, Winter 1999. The C.S. Lewis Foundation for Truth in Publishing, 1 January 1999.
  5. "Article". Eikasmos. 15: 463–476. 2004.
  6. "Foreign News: Canonibus Dawsiensis". Time. 8 July 1929.
  7. "Orations of the Public Orator". Einstein Archives. 23 May 1931. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Michael Ernest Sadler		 Master of University College, Oxford
1935–1937		 Succeeded by
William Henry Beveridge


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