Surname: Phillimore Forename(s): John Swinnerton b. 26 February 1873. d. 16 November 1926. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, classicist, and translator. Born in Boconnoc, Cornwall. Son of Vice-Admiral
Sir Augustus Phillimore and Harriet Eleanor. Educated at Westminster School and Christ
Church, Oxford. Scholar and lecturer on classical subjects. Served as chair of Greek
and Latin at the University of Glasgow. Married Margaret Cecily Hamilton-Spencer-Smith
in 1900. Prolific translator and critic of classical works, as well as original poetry
in Poems (1902) and Things New and Old (1918). Biographical information: ODNB. (BGL)