Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868–1944)[1] was a British classics and history teacher, author and amateur archaeologist.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he subsequently returned as a master in classics and history. Whilst there he published some educational editions of the classics and other works on history and English literature. His classical training naturally turned his attention to Roman history and archaeology, which led him to spend much time in British and continental museums, and on which he gave BBC talks.
He began practical archaeological excavations in 1922 and went on to unearth four Roman villas,[2] a Romano-Celtic Temple on Farley Heath, Surrey[3] and two Roman posting stations, made countless sections of Roman roads and found and dug a score of medieval glasshouse sites. Added to this he investigated six Early Iron Age camps in Sussex, Surrey and Kent. He also wrote four titles in the Penguin Guides series, which provided post-war touring guides to the English counties.
| Title | Publisher | Publication Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| English Poetry for the Young | 1904 | ||
| The Latin Hexameter: Hints for Sixth Forms | Blackie and Son | 1906 | |
| The Virgil Pocket Book | Archibald Constable and Company | 1907 | Arranged by S. E. Winbolt |
| England and Napoleon (1801-1815) | 1912 | ||
| American independence and the French Revolution (1760-1801) | G. Bell & Sons | 1912 | |
| Spenser & Shelley & their Poetry | 1912 | ||
| Dialogues of Roman Life | 1913 | Text on Wikisource | |
| The Horace Pocket Book | G. Bell & Sons | 1914 | Arranged by S. E. Winbolt |
| Spenser & his Poetry | George G. Harrap & Company | 1918 | |
| The Poetry And Prose Of Coleridge Lamb And Leigh Hunt | W J Bryce | 1920 | Edited by S. E. Winbolt |
| Poems By Alfred Lord Tennyson | G. Bell & Sons | 1923 | Edited by S. E. Winbolt |
| Roman Folkestone | Methuen & Co | 1925 | |
| Excavation at Farley Heath, Albury, 1926 | Surrey Archaeological Collections | 1926 | https://archive.org/details/p2surreyarchaeol37surr/page/180/mode/2up |
| A Survey of English Grammar | Blackie and Son | ||
| Bell's Pocket Guide to Somerset | G. Bell & Sons | 1929 | |
| Bell's Pocket Guide to Devon | G. Bell & Sons | 1929 | |
| Bell's Pocket Guide to Kent | G. Bell & Sons | 1930 | |
| Bell's Pocket guide to The Chilterns and the Thames Valley (from Iffley to Staines) | G. Bell & Sons | 1932 | |
| Dry Hill Camp, Lingfield | 1933 | Pamphlet co-written with I. D. Margary | |
| Wealden Glass. The Surrey-Sussex Glass Industry (A.D. 1226–1615) | Combridges, Hove | 1933 | |
| With A Spade On Stane Street | 1936 | ||
| Britain B.C. | 1943 | ||
| Britain under the Romans | Penguin | 1945 | |
| Penguin Guides - Kent, Sussex & Surrey | Penguin | 1939 | |
| Penguin Guides - Somerset | Penguin | 1939 | |
| Penguin Guides - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight | Penguin | 1949 | |
| Penguin Guides - Herts and Bucks | Penguin | 1949 | |
| The Roman Villa at Bignor, Sussex: With a Plan of the Villa | Tallyer Ltd | 1963 | Co-written with George Herbert Moore |
| The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Horsham | Sussex Church Publishers | 1968 | Pamphlet |