Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton
| Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 17, 1900 Corbetton, Ontario |
| Died | September 17, 1993 (aged 93) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto (B.A., 1921); Johns Hopkins University (Ph.D., 1928) |
| Occupation | professor, classical scholar, Roman historian, author |
| Known for | Latin prosopography; Magistrates of the Roman Republic |
Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, FBA (17 February 1900 – 17 September 1993) was a Canadian classical scholar and leading Latin prosopographer of the twentieth century. He is especially noted for his definitive three-volume work, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951-1986).
Broughton was born in 1900 in Corbetton, Ontario. He attended Victoria College at the University of Toronto. There he received a B.A. in 1921 with honors in classics. He earned his M.A. in 1922. After studying at the University of Chicago, he was made a Rogers Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Ph.D. in Latin in 1928, having studied under the famed ancient historian Tenney Frank (1876-1939).
He began his teaching career at Victoria College, Toronto. Broughton would go on to teach at Amherst College, Bryn Mawr College (1928-1965) and, later, serve as George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1965-1971), where the Library Epigraphy Room, created at his behest, remains a seminal resource. Although he retired from UNC in 1971 (then aged 71), he would continue to work and advise students until his death in 1993.
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