A portrait of Martin Ferguson Smith in his study on the Scottish island of Foula.
Martin Ferguson Smith, OBE, FRGS, FRHistS, FSA (born 26 April 1940, Birmingham, England) is a British scholar and writer.
After education at Shrewsbury School (1953–1958) he proceeded to Trinity College, Dublin (1958–1963), where he was a Foundation Scholar in Classics and won several academic prizes, including the Tyrrell Memorial Gold Medal for Greek and Latin verse and prose composition (1960).[1] After gaining First Class Honours and a Moderatorship Prize (1962),[2] he carried out postgraduate research under Donald Ernest Wilson Wormell for a thesis entitled "Lucretius: The Man and His Mission" (MLitt, Dublin, 1965).
From 1963 to 1988 Smith taught Classics at the University College of North Wales, Bangor (now Bangor University), from 1977 as Professor. From 1988 he was Professor of Classics at Durham University. Problems with his eyesight compelled him to take early retirement from university teaching in 1995. He continues to be associated with Durham University as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Classics and Ancient History.[3]
Smith married Elizabeth Mary Dempsey (1935–1997) of Dublin on 4 April 1964. The marriage was dissolved in 1981. He has a daughter and a granddaughter. Since 1995 he has lived on the remote and rugged island of Foula in Shetland. In "retirement" he has continued to be very active in research and writing, not only on classical subjects, but also on modern ones. In 2007 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to scholarship".[4]
^The Irish Times, 14 June 1960; The Times, 14 June 1960, p. 6
^The Times, 7 December 1962, p. 14.
^"Prof M. F. Smith, OBE". Department of Classics and Ancient History. Durham University. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
^The Times, 16 June 2007, p. 75.
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