Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster (3 July 1905 - 31 May 1974) was an English archaeologist, known for his studies of Greek comedy.During World War I he attended Charterhouse.As a student at Oxford University, he first studied Greek vases that John Beazley had brought in, but soon switched Menander and a lifelong interest in Greek comedy that resulted in"reconstructions of the plots of lost plays and ... collections ofevidence from widely disparate sources bearing on the history of the Greek theater".He followed William Moir Calder (1880–1960) as Hulme professor of greek at Manchester University, a position he held 1931-48, when he was followed by Henry Westlake (1906–92). He then was chair of Greek at University College London 1948-68 and in 1953 established Institute of Classical Studies. During World War II he served as an officer in the military intelligence. After his wife died in 1967, he moved to Stanford University as professor of classics and as an emeritus.. }
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- Thomas_B._L._Webster abstract "Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster (3 July 1905 - 31 May 1974) was an English archaeologist, known for his studies of Greek comedy.During World War I he attended Charterhouse.As a student at Oxford University, he first studied Greek vases that John Beazley had brought in, but soon switched Menander and a lifelong interest in Greek comedy that resulted in"reconstructions of the plots of lost plays and ... collections ofevidence from widely disparate sources bearing on the history of the Greek theater".He followed William Moir Calder (1880–1960) as Hulme professor of greek at Manchester University, a position he held 1931-48, when he was followed by Henry Westlake (1906–92). He then was chair of Greek at University College London 1948-68 and in 1953 established Institute of Classical Studies. During World War II he served as an officer in the military intelligence. After his wife died in 1967, he moved to Stanford University as professor of classics and as an emeritus.".