Hugh Evelyn-White
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Hugh Evelyn-White (Born 1884 - Died 1924) was an Ipswich born classicist, egyptologist, coptologist and archaeologist. In 1907 he graduated with a degree in classics from Wadham College. He is noted for his many translations of ancient Greek works most notable being those of Hesiod and the Homeric hymns. He served in the British Army in the Middle East during WWI as an officer but was invalided out in 1917. He worked on the excavations in Egypt and he returned to England in 1922 to work at as a lecturer at the University of Leeds but took his own life in 1924.
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