1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Strachan-Davidson, James Leigh

STRACHAN-DAVIDSON, JAMES LEIGH (1843–1916), British classical scholar, was born at Byfleet, Surrey, Oct. 22 1843, and educated at Leamington College and Balliol College, Oxford. He graduated first class in literae humaniores in 1866, and was elected to a fellowship of his college the same year. This he held until 1907 when, on the resignation of Edward Caird, he was elected to the mastership of the college. His whole life was devoted to university teaching and administration, as classical tutor, examiner, delegate of non-collegiate students, pro-vice-chancellor, etc., and to the study of Roman history. Amongst his published works were Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic (1894), Problems of the Roman Criminal Law (1912), as well as articles on the Roman Constitution in Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities. He died at Oxford March 28 1916.