Margaret Hubbard

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Margaret Hubbard (16 June 1924 – 28 April 2011) was an Australian-born British classical scholar specialising in philology.

Career[]

Hubbard excelled during her school career at Adelaide High School, which she attended on receipt of a Government bursary won in 1938.[1] Upon graduating from high school she won the Tennyson medal for the top place in the leaving examinations, and Annie Montgomerie Martin prize for coming top in modern history.[2] She then studied for an undergraduate degree at the University of Adelaide, reading Latin, English and Greek there,[3]. She was then awarded a scholarship to attend Somerville College, Oxford in 1948 to study Classics, the first time this scholarship had been awarded to an overseas applicant without an interview.[4] Hubbard graduated in 1953 with a First Class Degree.[5]:247 In 1949 she won the Dorothy McCalman Scholarship, bequeathed by Winifred Holtby, and in 1950 was awarded the Hertford Scholarship and Craven Scholarship.[5]:224 She was the first woman to win the Hertford Scholarship.[5]:224

She worked for a brief period at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich,[3] before becoming Mary Somerville Research Fellow at Somerville College from 1955 to 1957.[5]:224 In 1957 she moved to St Anne's College as a tutor, a post she held for the remainder of her career.[5]:224 The following year, she won the Ireland Scholarship, which has been described as "the most disinguished Classical award open to members of [Oxford] University."[5]:224 She followed this with two further awards, the Craven Fellowship and the Passmore Edwards Scholarship.[5]:224 From 1957 to 1986, she was a tutor and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.[6]

Hubbard has been described as "one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern age".[7] Hubbard was one of St Anne's College's 15 founding fellows.[8]

A one-day conference was held to commemorate Hubbard, and in her will she gave money to fund the college's Fellowship in Classical Languages and Literature, named after her father, A.E. Hubbard.[9]

Selected works[]

  • Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1970). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book I. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144397.
  • Nisbet, R. G. M.; Hubbard, Margaret (1978). A commentary on Horace: Odes, Book 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198144526.

References[]

  1. ^ "Girl Wins Tennyson Medal". Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). 13 January 1940. p. 22. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Girl Wins Tennyson Medal". Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). 13 January 1940. p. 22. Retrieved 28 July 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Margaret Hubbard (1924-2011)". AWAWS.
  4. ^ "Remarkable Scholarship Of S.A. Graduate". Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). 18 September 1953. p. 15.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Brittain, Vera (1960). The Women at Oxford. London: George G. Harrap & Co. ltd.
  6. ^ "Founding Fellows - Margaret Hubbard". St Anne’s College. University of Oxford. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  7. ^ "Margaret Hubbard". The Times. 13 May 2011. Retrieved 14 January 2017.
  8. ^ "St Anne's College, Oxford > About the College > Founding Fellows". www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2017-07-21.
  9. ^ Annual Review 2011 (PDF), St Anne's College, pp. 14, 19
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