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Sir Roger Aubrey Baskerville Mynors (28 July 1903 –17 October 1989) was an English classicist and medievalist who held the senior chair of Latin at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He served as the Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge from 1944 to 1953 and as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1970. Mynors' reputation is that of one of Britain's foremost classicists. A textual critic, he specialised in the study of manuscripts and their role in the reconstruction of classical texts. He was an expert on palaeography, and has been credited with unravelling a number of highly complex manuscript relationships. His publications include critical editions of Vergil, Catullus, and Pliny the Younger. In addition to receiving honorary degrees and fellowships from various institutions, Mynors was made a Knight Bachelor in 1963. He died in a car accident, aged 86. His comprehensive commentary on Vergil's Georgics was published posthumously.

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Hi and congratulations. A draft blurb for this article is above. Thoughts, comments and edits from you or from anyone else interested are welcome. Gog the Mild (talk) 22:34, 9 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Comment I have no objections to this blurb. This is in part due to my inexperience with TFA but I think it summarised the most important points of his life and career well. Best, Modussiccandi (talk) 09:26, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
 * , thanks - always tricky to summarise a complex article in 1,025 characters. Gog the Mild (talk) 10:14, 10 May 2021 (UTC)