Gail Trimble
| Gail Trimble | |
|---|---|
| Born |
13 August 1982 Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | English |
| Education | Classics DPhil Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
| Known for | University Challenge 2009 series, captain of winning team (later disqualified) |
Gail Christina Trimble (born 13 August 1982) is a senior faculty member in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford.
Trimble was born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, to Mary and Michael Trimble. Her father worked as a manager for British Telecom and her mother was a magistrate at Staines Magistrates Court.
Growing up, Trimble attended the Ambleside Infant and Middle School before enrolling at the girls-only Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, London. While there, she gained 11 GCSE certificates followed by four A-levels at grade A: in Latin, Ancient Greek, English Literature and Maths, plus one of the top five marks in the country with A-level General Studies. She was awarded a place at Corpus Christi College, Oxford in 2000. She won a declamation prize at Oxford for Latin recital in 2001 and was also reported to give recitals in her lunchtimes at college as a soprano singer, and lecture on Ovid, Hellenistic poetry and Catullus. Her research had been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2010, she was awarded a D.Phil. in Latin literature at Corpus Christi, Oxford on the subject of Catullus.
In 2009, Trimble was elected as a junior research fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and held the position for a year before returning to Oxford as a senior faculty member. Trimble was one of the contributors to the 4th edition of the Oxford Classical Dictionary which was published in 2012. In 2013, she was tutoring at Oxford while working on a commentary on Catullus' longest poem.
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