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McLEOD, Wallace Edmond

  • McLeod, Wallace Edmond; Torontonensis U. of Toronto Yearbook, Class of 1953 p. 258.
  • Date of Birth: May 30, 1931
  • Born City: East York, Ontario,
  • Born State/Country: Canada
  • Parents: Angus Edmond Eddie & Mary Ann Elta Shier M.
  • Date of Death: June 3, 2020
  • Death City: Toronto
  • Death State/Country: Canada
  • Married: Elizabeth Marion Staples, 1957.
  • Education:

    B.A., Victoria College, U. of Toronto, 1953; M.A., Harvard, 1954; Ph.D., 1966.
  • Dissertation:

    “The Bow in Ancient Greece, with Particular Reference to the Homeric Poems” (Harvard, 1966).
  • Professional Experience:

    Instructor, Trinity College (Hartford, CT), 1955–56; fellow, ASCSA, 1957–9;.. instr., U. of British Columbia, 1959–61; lectr., U. of Western Ontario, 1961–2; asst. prof., Victoria College, Toronto, 1962–6; assoc. prof., 1966–74; prof., 1974–96; acting chair, dept. Classics, 1978-82; assoc. ed., Phoenix, 1965-70; acting ed., 1973; acting assoc. ed., 1985, 1989, 1993; Canadian Council leave fellow, ASCSA. 1970-1; Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, 1980-95; President, Philalethes Society, 1992; Prestonian Lecturer, United Grand Lodge of England, 1986; Master, Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076.
  • Publications:

    Classical scholarship:

    “An Unpublished Egyptian Composite Bow in the Brooklyn Museum,” AJA 62 (1958) 397-401; “An Ephebic Dedication from Rhamnous,” Hesperia 28 (1959) 121-6; “Boudoron, an Athenian Fort on Salamis,” Hesperia 29 (1960) 316-23; “Τριγλώχις,” AJA 64 (1960) 370-1; “Oral Bards at Delphi,” TAPA 92 (1961) 317-25; “Byron’s Epitaph,” G&R 9 (1962) 182; “Egyptian Composite Bows in New York,” AJA 66 (1962) 13-19; “Kiveri and Thermisi,” Hesperia 31 (1962) 378-92; “γλυφίδες,” CR 14 (1964) 140-1; “The Range of the Ancient Bow,” Phoenix 19 (1965) 1-14; “Studies on Panyassis: An Heroic Poet of the Fifth Century,” Phoenix 20 (1966) 95-110; “Were Egyptian Composite Bows made in Asia?,” Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries (1969) Composite Bows from the Tomb of Tut'ankhamūn, Tut'ankhamūn's Tomb Series, vol. 3 (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1970); “Castles of the Morea in 1467,” BZ (1972) “The Ancient Egyptian Composite Bow: Some Notes on Its Structure and Performance,” with Edward McEwen, AJA 89 (April 1985) 341ff.; “Woods Used in Egyptian Bows and Arrows,” JEA 81 (1995) 77-94.

    Selected Masonic Scholarship

    Beyond the Pillars: More Light on Freemasonry (ed.) (Hamilton, ON: Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, 1973); iThe Old Charges and the Hathaway Manuscript Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (Hamilton, ON: Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario,1978) Whence Come We? (ed.) (Hamilton, ON: Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, 1980); Meeting the Challenge: The Lodge Officer at Work (ed.) (Hamilton, ON: Grand Lodge of Canada in the Province of Ontario, 1980); The Sufferings of John Coustos (ed.) (Bloomington, IL: Masonic Book Club, 1979); The Old Gothic Constitutions (ed.) (Bloomington, IL: Masonic Book Club, 1985); A Candid Disquisition (ed.) (Bloomington, IL: Masonic Book Club, 1989).
  • Sources:

    DAS 7th ed., 3:324; Stephen Maizels, In Memoriam Wallace E. McLeod, FPS, Philalethes, 73 (Summer 2020).