Basil Cottle

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Basil Cottle's Degrees

• PhD History University of Oxford

Why Is Basil Cottle Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Arthur Basil Cottle was a British grammarian, historian and archaeologist. He lived most of his life in Bristol. Early life and education Cottle was born in Cardiff on 17 March 1917. He was the younger son of Arthur Bertram Cottle , a clerk, and Cecile Mary Bennett, a schoolmistress. He attended Howard Gardens Secondary School in Cardiff, where his precocious talents came to the notice of Evan Frederic Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar , Welsh poet, author, occultist and convert to Roman Catholicism, who gave Cottle the use of the extensive library at Tredegar House. A prolonged and severe bout of rheumatic fever in his early teens permanently affected his eyesight and he subsequently completely lost sight in his right eye. Notwithstanding this disadvantage, Cottle went on to the University of Wales, where he obtained a double first in English and Latin, and a second in Greek, his favourite subject. Whilst there he became a protege of Dr Victor Erle Nash-Williams , Keeper of the Department of Archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and lecturer in archaeology from whom he developed a lifelong interest in Roman and early Celtic Christianity and epigraphy. Cottle was encouraged by Nash-Williams to become a museum curator but he eventually trained as a schoolmaster, gaining a first in education at Cardiff, and taught at Cowbridge Grammar School.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Basil Cottle?

Basil Cottle is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Bristol
• University of Oxford
• University of Wales