Terrot R. Glover Explained

Terrot Reaveley Glover (1869–1943^[1]) was a Cambridge University lecturer of classical literature. He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was also a Latinist, and is known for translating Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses to Latin.^[2]

Life

Glover was born in Bristol where his father, the Rev. Richard Glover, was minister of Tyndale Baptist Church.^[3]

Glover worked as a lecturer for nearly 20 years.

He was a representative of Cambridge University at University College Bristol until he resigned. Hansard, records that his resignation and the opinions of Geraldine Hodgson and Professor Gerothwohl concerning "grave reflections upon the administration of the university" were raised in Parliament as a pretext for a Public Enquiry on 1 May 1913. The enquiry was not authorised.^[4]

Glover also wrote books, including The Jesus of History and Poets and Puritans. He was Public Orator of Cambridge University between 1920 and 1939, until he was succeeded by W. K. C. Guthrie.^[5]

Glover was a Baptist and attended St Andrews Street Baptist Church in Cambridge, where his friend Melbourn Aubrey was minister until 1925. Aubrey recalled that for Glover "the Old Testament came to have less and less value and in his last years he appeared to resent ministers taking texts or even lessons from it."^[6] Glover had six children.^[7] He conducted services in Appleton chapel at Harvard University on 19 December 1923 while visiting the university.^[8]

Selected bibliography

• Life and Letters in the Fourth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1901)
• Studies in Virgil, London: E. Arnold. (1904) - 4th ed. 1920
• The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire, London: Methuen & Co. (1909) - 3d ed.
• The Nature and Purpose of a Christian Society, London: Headley Bros.; New York: George H. Doran Company. (1912)
• The Christian Tradition and its Verification, London: Methuen & Co. (1912) - 4th ed. 1917
• Poets and Puritans, London: Methuen & Co. (1915)
• The Jesus of History, London: Student Christian Movement; New York: Association Press. (1917)
• From Pericles to Philip, New York: The Macmillan Company. (1917)
• The Pilgrim: Essays on Religion, London: Student Christian Movement. (1921)
• Jesus in the Experience of Men, New York: Association Press. (1921)
• Progress in Religion to the Christian Era, London: Student Christian Movement. (1922)
• Herodotus, Berkeley, Calif.: The University of California Press. (1924)
• The Influence of Christ in the Ancient World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1929)
• The World of the New Testament, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1931)
• Apology: De spectaculis, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (1931) - Tertullian, c. 160-ca. 230.; with Marcus Minucius Felix
• Horace: A Return to Allegiance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1932)
• Democracy and Religion..., Sackville: N. B., Mount Allison University. (1932)
• The Ancient World: A Beginning, New York: The Macmillan Company. (1935)
• Paul of Tarsus, London: Student Christian Movement. (1938)
• Disciple, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1942)
• The Challenge of the Greek and other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1942)
• Cambridge Retrospect, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Disciple Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1943)
• Springs of Hellas and other Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (1945)

External links

• List of Online Books by T. R. Glover

Notes and References

1. Book: Wood, H. G.. Terrot Reaveley Glover. 1953. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-59449-4.
2. Web site: T. R. Glover Review and Reminiscence. M. E. Aubrey. Melbourn Aubrey. The Baptist Quarterly. biblicalstudies.org.uk. 175–182. October 1953. 27 April 2016.
3. Web site: Mission: Home and Overseas. Richard Glover of Bristol. 1992. David T. Roberts. The Baptist Quarterly. 25 October 2020.
4. Web site: 1 May 1913 . House Of Commons - records . Hansard.
5. Web site: List. 5 February 2017.
6. Web site: T. R. Glover Review and Reminiscence. M. E. Aubrey. Melbourn Aubrey. The Baptist Quarterly. biblicalstudies.org.uk. 175–182. October 1953. 19 October 2020.
7. Web site: Janet Glover. https://web.archive.org/web/20160227080946/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1341607/Janet-Glover.html. dead. 27 February 2016. The Daily Telegraph. 3 June 2000. 27 April 2016.
8. Web site: UNIVERSITY CHAPEL. The Harvard Crimson. 19 December 1923. 27 April 2016.