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About Martin Ferguson Smith
- Martin Ferguson Smith, (born 26 April 1940, Birmingham, England) is a British scholar and writer.
- After education at Shrewsbury School (1953-1958) he proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (1958-1963), where he was a Foundation Scholar in Classics and won several academic prizes, including the Tyrrell Memorial Gold Medal for Greek and Latin verse and prose composition (1960).
- After gaining First Class Honours and a Moderatorship Prize (1962), he carried out postgraduate research under Donald Ernest Wilson Wormell for a thesis entitled Lucretius: The Man and His Mission (MLitt, Dublin, 1965). From 1963 to 1988 Smith taught Classics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University), from 1977 as Professor.
- From 1988 he was Professor of Classics at Durham University.
- Problems with his eyesight compelled him to take early retirement from university teaching in 1995.
- He continues to be associated with Durham University as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.Smith married Elizabeth Mary Dempsey (1935-1997) of Dublin on 4 April 1964.
- The marriage was dissolved in 1981.
- He has a daughter and a granddaughter.
- Since 1995 he has lived on the remote and rugged island of Foula in Shetland.
- In “retirement” he has continued to be very active in research and writing, not only on classical subjects, but also on modern ones.
- In 2007 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to scholarship".
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