This British language scholar who attended the oldest English-speaking university in the English speaking world was president of the British academy from 197174.
Sir Denys Lionel Page, FBA (11 May 1908, Reading, Berkshire  6 July 1978, Tarset) was a British classical scholar at Oxford and Cambridge universities. 
 He was President of the British Academy from 197174. 
The University of Oxford (informally Oxford University or simply Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England. 
 It has no known date of foundation, but there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation. 
