Housman, A(lfred) E(dward) 1859-1936
English scholar and poet

Born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, he was the brother of Laurence Housman. Educated at Bromsgrove School and St John's College, Oxford, he failed his degree, but became a distinguished classical scholar, and was appointed Professor of Latin at University College London (1892), and at Cambridge (1911). He published critical editions of the Roman poet Marcus Manilius (1903-30), Juvenal (1905) and Lucan (1926). He is known primarily for his own poetry, notably A Shropshire Lad (1896), Last Poems (1922) and More Poems, published posthumously in 1936.

Bibliography: I Kilvert, A E Housman (1955)