Hugh Lloyd-Jones

Lloyd-Jones was educated at Westminster School where he developed an interest in Modern History before being converted to classics by his headmaster, J. T. Christie.^[2] He pursued undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Christ Church, Oxford, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War. In February 1942, he was one of a group consisting mostly of classicists from Oxford and Cambridge who were assigned to study Japanese at the secret Bedford Japanese School run by Captain Oswald Tuck of the Royal Navy. Lloyd-Jones was in the first course run at the school, which lasted for only five months. After Bedford he was sent to the Military Wing at Bletchley Park, and then he received further training at the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Subsequently he was posted to the Wireless Experimental Centre, Delhi, where he worked as an officer in the Intelligence Corps. According to Oswald Tuck’s account, these three were the "key men" at the Wireless Experimental Centre. He was invited to join the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, but turned it down as he was eager to get back to his studies.^[3][4] He ended the war as a captain.^[2]

Lloyd-Jones took a first degree in Greats in 1948 and gained several university prizes. For a while he was a FellowofJesus College, Cambridge, and while there met his first wife, Frances Hedley, a classics student at Newnham College, whom he married in 1953. The couple had two sons and a daughter and were divorced in 1981. In 1951 Lloyd-Jones returned to Oxford where he became the first holder of the E. P. Warren PraelectorshipatCorpus Christi College.^[2]

Lloyd-Jones supervised many distinguished D. Phil. students, including Martin Litchfield West. In his inaugural address as Regius Professor in 1961 he called for a reduction in the emphasis laid on composition taught to undergraduates and suggested that Honour Moderations might have to be reformed to encompass studies taken from ancient philosophy and history as well as the traditional literature and language.^[1]

He contributed editions of Menander's Dyscolus (1960) and of Sophocles (1990, together with Nigel Wilson) to the Oxford Classical Texts, and editions and translations of the Aeschylean fragments (1960) and of Sophocles (2000) to the Loeb Classical Library.^[1]

Lloyd-Jones was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1966^[5] and was a member of five foreign academies, holding honorary doctorates from the universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, Göttingen and Thessaloniki. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.^[6][7] His retirement from the Regius Chair in 1989, after twenty-nine years, was marked by a knighthood.^[2]

He married his second wife Mary R. Lefkowitz, Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley CollegeinMassachusetts, in 1982, and spent his last 27 years at their home in Wellesley.

• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1971). The Justice of Zeus. Sather Classical Lectures. Vol. 42. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520017390.
• — (1975). Females of the Species: Semonides on Women. Illustrated by Marcelle Quinton. Park Ridge: Noyes. ISBN 0815550383.
• — (1978). Myths of the Zodiac. Illustrated by Marcelle Quinton. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0715614932.
• — (1980). Mythical Beasts. Illustrated by Marcelle Quinton. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0715614398.
• — (1982). Classical Survivals: The Classics in the Modern World. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0715615173.
• — (1983). Blood for the Ghosts: Classical Influences in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801830176 – via Internet Archive.
• — (1990). Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion, and Miscellanea: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198147457.
• — (1990). Greek Epic, Lyric, and Tragedy: The Academic Papers of Sir Hugh Lloyd Jones. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198146809.
• —; Wilson, Nigel Guy (1990). Sophoclea: Studies on the Text of Sophocles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 019814041X.
• —; Wilson, Nigel Guy, eds. (1990). Sophoclis Fabulae. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198145772.
• — (1991). Greek in a Cold Climate. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0389209678 – via Internet Archive.
• —; Wilson, Nigel Guy (1997). Sophoclea: Sophocles: Second Thoughts. Hypomnemata. Vol. 100. Göttingen: Ruprecht. ISBN 3525252005.

• Vogt, Ernst (2010). "Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones" (PDF). Jahrbuch: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (in German): 168–169.