Arthur Hort
Sir Arthur F. Hort (1864–1935) was a schoolmaster at Harrow School. He is known for his translation of Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants.
Biography
Arthur Fenton Hort was born in 1864 to Fanny Henrietta Hort and the biblical scholar Fenton John Anthony Hort. He was educated in Classics and became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge,{{cite web |title=Letter from D[arcy]W[entworth]T[hompson] to George Greenhill |url=https://collections.st-andrews.ac.uk/item/letter-from-dwt-to-george-greenhill/2065219 |publisher=University of St Andrews |access-date=22 April 2025 |quote=DWT has been reporting to the Cambridge Classical Board on the translation (by Sir Arthur Hort) of Theophrastus' "Historia Plantarum",... But Hort is a popular Harrow-master, an ex-fellow of Trinity, and a very decent, likeable fellow generally; so I am pretty sure that he will get his D.Litt in spite of my criticisms.}} and worked as a schoolmaster at Harrow School, London, where he became a housemaster; he was interested in gardening.{{cite journal |title=They Lived in Gray's Inn − E.H.W. Meyerstein |journal=Graya |date=November 2024 |issue=129 |page=70 |url=https://www.graysinn.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/11/Graya-2016-they-lived-in-the-inn.pdf |publisher=Gray's Inn |access-date=22 April 2025 |quote=[E.H.W. Meyerstein] was sent to Harrow. His housemaster was Sir Arthur Hort, a classical scholar whom he described as 'a tall, brown-bearded man with a Venetian senator's appearance and a taste for gardening'.}} He became the 6th baronet Hort of Castle Strange.{{cite web |title=Maker: Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet Hort of Castle Strange (1864-1935) |url=https://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/results?Maker=Sir+Arthur+Fenton+Hort%2C+6th+Baronet+Hort+of+Castle+Strange+(1864-1935) |publisher=National Trust |access-date=22 April 2025}} He married Helen Frances Bell in 1894.{{cite web |title=Hort, Sir Arthur Fenton (1864-1935) 6th Baronet, master at Harrow and botanist |url=https://archives.trin.cam.ac.uk/index.php/hort-sir-arthur-1864-1935-knight-master-at-harrow |publisher=Trinity College, Cambridge |access-date=22 April 2025}}
Works
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- Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896) [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersoffen01hortuoft Part 1] [https://archive.org/details/lifelettersoffen02hortuoft Part 2]
- (ed.) The Gospel According to St Mark (1907)
- (ed.) Books I and II by Livy
- (ed.) Book V by Livy
- (ed.) Selection from 'Hercules Furens' by Euripides
- (tr). Enquiry into Plants by Theophrastus (1916) (in two volumes). London: William Heinemann, and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
- [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000170745 Brian Piers Lascelles: A Memoir] (1924)
- The Unconventional Garden (1928)
- Garden Variety (1935)
- (tr. with Mary Letitia Green) The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus by Carl Linnaeus (1938)