John Penrose Barron Author

John Penrose Barron was a classical scholar and Philhellene, educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He was Professor of Greek at King’s College London and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies and, subsequently, Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford. His DPhil thesis on the history of Samos in the Archaic period led him to Georgirenes’ account of the island of Samos published in 1677, which he found in the library of Balliol College. John Barron had completed all but one chapter of this biography when he died in 2008.