| Administrative History | Robert J. Getty was born in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1908, and graduated B.A. in 1928 from Queen’s University, Belfast, in classics. He then graduated B.A. from St. John’s College, Oxford, in 1930 and was an assistant in Latin at Aberdeen University from then until 1934, when he was appointed lecturer in Latin at Liverpool University. Getty married Margaret Wood, the Greek assistant at Aberdeen University, in 1935. In 1937 he returned to St. John’s College as a lecturer in classics until 1947, when he was appointed to the chair of Latin at University College, University of Toronto, Canada. He saw war service in the Air Ministry and the Foreign Office and in 1958 moved to the Paddison Chair of Classics, a new post, at the University of North Carolina. Getty specialised in Silver Latin and astronomy in Latin literature. He died in North Carolina in 1963. |
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