Arthur Hort

Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet (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, and worked as a schoolmaster at Harrow School, London, where he became a housemaster; he was interested in gardening. He married Helen Frances Bell in 1894. In 1904 he succeeded a cousin to became the 6th Hort baronet of Castle Strange.

Works

Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896) Part 1 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.
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)

References

↑ "Letter from D[arcy]W[entworth]T[hompson] to George Greenhill". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 22 April 2025. 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.
1 2 "Hort, Sir Arthur Fenton (1864-1935) 6th Baronet, master at Harrow and botanist". Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 22 April 2025.
↑ "They Lived in Gray's Inn − E.H.W. Meyerstein" (PDF). Graya (129). Gray's Inn: 70. November 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2025. [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'.
↑ "Maker: Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet Hort of Castle Strange (1864-1935)". National Trust. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

[1] "Letter from D[arcy]W[entworth]T[hompson] to George Greenhill". University of St Andrews. Retrieved 22 April 2025. 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.

[Trinity-2] 1 2 "Hort, Sir Arthur Fenton (1864-1935) 6th Baronet, master at Harrow and botanist". Trinity College, Cambridge. Retrieved 22 April 2025.

[Grays_Inn-3] "They Lived in Gray's Inn − E.H.W. Meyerstein" (PDF). Graya (129). Gray's Inn: 70. November 2024. Retrieved 22 April 2025. [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'.

[4] "Maker: Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet Hort of Castle Strange (1864-1935)". National Trust. Retrieved 22 April 2025.