Alexander Petrie
Scottish classical scholar in South Africa
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexander Petrie was the first Professor of Classics at the University of Natal . Academic career Petrie graduated with an MA from Aberdeen University in 1903, where he received the Liddle Prize for Latin Verse . He won the Ferguson Scholarship in 1904. He also attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA from the University of Cambridge in 1907. He was appointed lecturer in Greek at Aberdeen in 1908, but in 1910 moved to South Africa to take up the position of Professor of Classics at the recently formed Natal University College, where he stayed until his retirement in 1946. He was made Professor Emeritus in 1948, and in 1950 the University of Natal awarded him the degree of D.Litt. . After his retirement he continued occasional teaching at the University of Natal, as well as at Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a founding member of the Classical Association of South Africa in 1927, along with the Hon. J. H. Hofmeyr and Professors C. S. Edgar, W. Rollo, W. Ritchie and T. J. Haarhoff. He was later elected joint Honorary President of the Classical Association of South Africa, along with T. J. Haarhoff in 1956.
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