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xxii Annual Report of the Delegacy him for his friendship and advice so freely made available to them during their time at King's In bidding him farewell the Delegacy would wish to express both their thanks and their best wishes for many years of happy and active retirement to him and to Mrs Ross Professor Winnington-Ingram In 1953 the University at the request of King's College invited Reginald Pepys Winnington-Ingram to occupy the Chair of Greek Language and Literature vacated by Professor Palmer Having already been Reader in Classics at Birkbeck College and Professor of Classics at Westfield College he had added to his high distinction as graduate of the University of Cambridge and Research Fellow of Trinity College and to his experience of the rough-and-tumble in provincial university knowledge of the London academic scene which has been of immense benefit to his colleagues and students in the Department of Classics and to the College as whole Among his many valuable activities outside the College could be mentioned his Chairmanship of the Board of Studies in Classics his Presidency of the London Classical Society and his Directorship of the Institute of Classical Studies Within the College his cursus honorum has included membership of the Delegacy and its Finance Committee the Council the Staffing Committee and the Library Committee Among the many monuments of his learning which Professor Winnington-Ingram will leave to posterity three major works may be mentioned-Mode in Ancient Greek Music 1936 Euripides and Dionysus 1948 and his Teubner Text oiAristides Quintilianus De Musica 1963 His distinction in these fields has been acknowledged by the conferment of an honorary doctorate of the University of Glasgow and his election as an In spite of all these claims to our esteem and admiration it is as colleague and friend teacher and counsellor and devoted member of our brotherhood that Professor Winnington-Ingram is chiefly thought of and will be chiefly remembered As he has served and loved our community so he has the respect and affection of its many members old and young of various grades who have come to know him well The Delegacy in bidding him farewell would wish to express both their thanks and their best wishes for many years of happy and active retirement to him and to Mrs Winnington-Ingram