A. M. Dale

Amy Marjorie Webster, FBA (née Dale; 15 January 1901 – 4 February 1967), published as A. M. Dale, was a British classicist and academic.

Dale was born in 1901. She studied Classics as an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford. She subsequently studied under Ludwig Radermacher at the University of Vienna, and at the University of Lund under Albert Wifstrand. Her first academic post, from 1927 to 1929, was at Westfield College in the University of London, followed by a further post at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

During the Second World War, Dale worked in the Foreign Office, and worked in her spare time on translating Eduard Fraenkel's edition of Aeschylus's Agamemnon into English. In 1944 she married T. B. L. Webster, who was employed in the same department of the Foreign Office. After the war, she moved with him to Manchester, where he was Professor of Greek. When he was appointed Professor of Greek at University College, London, she was offered and accepted a lectureship at Birkbeck College, London. In 1952 she was appointed Reader in Classics, and in 1957 a Fellow of the British Academy. In 1959, she received the honour of a Personal Chair in Greek. In 1962 she was made an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, Oxford. She retired in 1963, becoming Professor Emeritus in Greek at the University of London.

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