Robert Gregg Bury
| Robert Gregg Bury | |
|---|---|
| Born | Robert Gregg Bury 22 March 1869 Clontibret, County Monaghan, Ireland |
| Died | 11 February 1951 (aged 81) Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Classicist, clergyman |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Notable works |
The Philebus of Plato The Symposium of Plato The Fourth Gospel and the Logos-Doctrine |
Robert Gregg Bury (22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish clergyman, classicist, philologist, and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
Born in Clontibret, County Monaghan, Ireland, Bury was the son of Edward John Bury, the canon of Clogher, and the brother of John Bagnell Bury, an Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. It was pleasantly claimed by neighbors that the only language spoken in the Clontibret presbytery was Greek.
He studied classics under Professor Henry Jackson at Trinity College, Cambridge, winning the Browne Medal Scholar in 1889 and graduating in 1890 with first class honours in classics in 1890. He graduated as M.A. in 1893 and received a Litt.D. in 1910.
In 1893-94 he was Bishop Berkeley Fellow in Ancient Philosophy at Owens College in Manchester and in 1895 he was appointed lecturer in Greek and Latin Literature at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, United States. He worked as Examiner in Classical Tripos at Cambridge University in the years 1899-1900 and 1905-6.
In 1895 Bury decided to become an Anglican clergyman. He was ordinated as a deacon in that year and as a priest in 1897. From this time onwards "il va consacrer sa vie d'une part au ministère des âmes, d'autre part à la philologie grecque et spécialement à Platon" [he is going to consecrate his life on one side to the ministry of souls, on the other to Greek philology and especially to Plato]. For several decades he was a curate successively at Staplehurst, Kent (1895-98), in the parish of St Andrew Holborn (1897-99), at Clontibret, County Monaghan (1899-1900), and at Templecarn, County Donegal (1900-01); then a vicar at Trumpington, Cambridgeshire (1903-18); and finally a rector at East Gilling,Yorkshire (1918-24), and at Dickleburgh and Langmere, Norfolk (1924-28).
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