• Date of Birth: October 13, 1919
  • Born City: Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire,
  • Born State/Country: Scotland
  • Parents: James Scott and Louise Ferguson Pearson T.
  • Date of Death: February 18, 2009
  • Death City: Toronto
  • Death State/Country: Canada
  • Married: Eleanor Mary Hodgkins, June 27, 1953.
  • Education:

    Glasgow Academy, 1928-38; B.A., Merton College, Oxford, 1946; M.A., 1947.

  • Professional Experience:

    Served with RA (Field and Mountain Batteries) Europe, Middle East, Burma as cavalry officer, 1939-45; master, Glasgow Academy, 1946-8; Lectr., University College, Toronto, 1948-56; asst. prof., 1956-62; assoc. prof., 1962-9; prof. Latin, 1969-85; Captain, then Major, Officers’ Training Corps. U. of Toronto, 1954-60; Nuffield Travelling Fellow, (London, Oxford, & Italy, 1959-60; vis. prof. U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967-8; Canadian Council Fellow, Oxford, 1970-1; Chairman, Interuniversities Council on Grade 13 Latin (Ontario) 1963-4; editorial comm. Phoenix, 1958-71.

  • Publications:

    “George Buchanan: The Humanist in the Sixteenth-Century World,” Phoenix 4 (1950) 77-94; “The Latin Program in Scotland. The Sixteenth Century,” Phoenix 11 (1957) 63-78; “Interpretations of Catullus, I,” Phoenix 11 (1957) 121-4; “Aspects of Unity in Catullus 64,” CJ 57 (1961) 49-57; Erasmus of Rotterdam. The Cambridge Letters of Erasmus, trans.; introd., comm., & notes by H.C. Porter (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1963); Erasmus and Cambridge. The Cambridge Letters of Erasmus, ed. with H.C. Porter (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1963; M. Zicari, “Some Metrical and Prosodical Features of Catullus’ Poetry,” (trans.), Phoenix 18 (1964) 193-205; “Interpretations of Catullus II: Catullus 95,8, et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas,” Phoenix 18 (1964) 30-6; “A Note on Statius Silvae iv.9.13,” Phoenix 18 (1964) 37-8; “Catullus and Cicero: Poetry and Criticism of Poetry,” CW 60 (1967) 225-30; “Bibliography of W.L. Grant,” (compiler), Phoenix 22 (1968) 2; “The Codex Romanus of Catullus: A Collation of the Text,” RhM 113 (1970) 97-110; “Catullus 64, 196,” RhM 113 (1970) 89-91; “Recent Scholarship on Catullus (1960-1969),” CW 65 (1971) 116-26; “Poggio’s Earliest Manuscript?,” with Albinia C. De la Mare, IMU  16 (1973) 173-95; “A New Look at the Manuscript Tradition of Catullus,” YCS 23 (1973) 113-29; The Correspondence of Erasmus, trans with R.A.B. Mynors, 9 vols. (Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1974–89); Catullus: A Critical Edition, ed. with intro. (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 1978); “Catullus 107.3-4 and 109.1-2,” LCM 9 (1984) 119-20; “Catullus 112,” Phoenix 41 (1988) 191-2; Catullus, Edited with a Textual and Interpretive commentary, Phoenix Supplementary Volume 34 (Toronto: Toronto U. Press, 1997; repr. 1998; paper ed., 2003).

  • Sources:

    CanWhWh 1297-8; DAS 7th ed. 3:492; Alison Keith, QS 30 (2004) 247-59.