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John Percival Postgate
John Percival Postgate, FBA (24 October 1853 – 15 July 1926) was an English classicist, professor of Latin at the University of Liverpool from 1909 to 1920. He was a member of the Postgate family.
Born in Birmingham, the son of John Postgate, he was educated at King Edward's School where he became head boy. He won a scholarship to Trinity College, Cambridge where he read classics, being elected a Fellow in 1878.
He established himself as a creative editor of
John Postgate
John Postgate may refer to:
- John Postgate (food safety campaigner) (1820–1881), English surgeon and academic
- John Percival Postgate (1853–1926), English classicist, son of the last
- John Postgate (microbiologist) (1922–2014), English microbiologist and writer, grandson of the last
See also.
- Postgate family