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biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1911-08-10</span>)</span>10 August 1911<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Brentford" title="Brentford">Brentford</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">1 November 1993<span style="display:none">(1993-11-01)</span> (aged 82)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Fyfield,_Oxfordshire" title="Fyfield, Oxfordshire">Fyfield, Oxfordshire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">British</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Merchant_Taylors%27_School,_Northwood" title="Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood">Merchant Taylors' School</a><br /><a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St John's College, Oxford">St John's College</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Rome" title="History of Rome">Roman historian</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Naval_intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval intelligence">Naval intelligence</a> officer</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer(s)</th><td class="infobox-data org">St John's College, Oxford</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White</b>, <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a> (10 August 1911 – 1<span class="nowrap"> </span>November 1993) was a British academic and <a href="/wiki/Ancient_historian" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient historian">ancient historian</a>. He was a fellow of <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St John's College, Oxford">St John's College</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a> and President of the <a href="/wiki/Society_for_the_Promotion_of_Roman_Studies" class="mw-redirect" title="Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies">Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies</a>. His most important works include a study of <a href="/wiki/Roman_citizenship" title="Roman citizenship">Roman citizenship</a> based on his doctoral thesis, a treatment of the <a href="/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament">New Testament</a> from the point of view of Roman law and society, and a commentary on the letters of <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._N._Sherwin-White&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White was born on 10 August 1911. His father, H. N. Sherwin-White, was a <a href="/wiki/Solicitor" title="Solicitor">solicitor</a> employed by the <a href="/wiki/London_County_Council" title="London County Council">London County Council</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1923 to 1930 he was educated at <a href="/wiki/Merchant_Taylors%27_School,_Northwood" title="Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood">Merchant Taylors' School</a>, apart from one year in which ill health forced him to study independently at home. He won a scholarship to the School's "sister foundation" <a href="/wiki/St_John%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St John's College, Oxford">St John's College</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">Oxford</a>, where he began the <i><a href="/wiki/Literae_Humaniores" class="mw-redirect" title="Literae Humaniores">Literae Humaniores</a></i> course in 1930.<sup id="cite_ref-brunt_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His tutor in ancient history was <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Last" title="Hugh Last">Hugh Last</a>, whose interest in Roman administrative history influenced the direction of his student's later scholarship.<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sherwin-White achieved <a href="/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification#Degree_classification" title="British undergraduate degree classification">first-class honours</a> in both sets of Oxford examinations, the preliminary <a href="/wiki/Honour_Moderations" title="Honour Moderations">Honour Moderations</a> and the more important <a href="/wiki/Final_examination" class="mw-redirect" title="Final examination">Finals</a> which he sat in 1934.<sup id="cite_ref-brunt_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sherwin-White started work the same year on his doctoral thesis, on <a href="/wiki/Roman_citizenship" title="Roman citizenship">Roman citizenship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-brunt_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1935, he was awarded the Derby Scholarship and Arnold Historical Essay Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1936, he married Marie Leonora Downes. He was also selected ahead of older competitors to succeed to Last's fellowship at St John's College, despite not yet having a doctorate – this may have been on Last's recommendation.<sup id="cite_ref-brunt_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His thesis was submitted in 1937, and the examiners M. Cary and <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Syme" title="Ronald Syme">R. Syme</a> commended its "maturity of judgement such as one hardly dares to expect from a young scholar".<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Sherwin-White declined to accept the actual doctorate, preferring to remain known as "Mr", but he revised the thesis for publication as <i>The Roman Citizenship</i> (1939). It came to be regarded as "a classic of modern historical writing on Rome".<sup id="cite_ref-brunt_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-brunt-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sherwin-White's poor eyesight kept him from active service during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, but the President of St John's wrote to the Director of <a href="/wiki/Naval_Intelligence" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval Intelligence">Naval Intelligence</a> to recommend him for a post,<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he was commissioned on 4 December 1941 as a Temporary <a href="/wiki/Sub-Lieutenant" class="mw-redirect" title="Sub-Lieutenant">Sub-Lieutenant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He helped to edit some of the <a href="/wiki/British_Admiralty" class="mw-redirect" title="British Admiralty">Admiralty</a>'s series of <a href="/wiki/Naval_Intelligence_Handbooks" title="Naval Intelligence Handbooks">geographical handbooks</a>, acquiring detailed geographical knowledge that he displayed in subsequent scholarship including a 1944 article about the historical geography of <a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sherwin-White returned after the War to teaching at St John's, where he also served as "Keeper of the Groves" responsible for the college garden. Outside recognition came in 1956 with his election as a fellow of the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">British Academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He produced a school textbook, <i>Ancient Rome</i> (1959), as well as more advanced works including <i>Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament</i> (1963), identified retrospectively by the Roman historian <a href="/wiki/Fergus_Millar" title="Fergus Millar">Fergus Millar</a> as "[t]he most stimulating and original" of his postwar works.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Arising from his studies of Roman law and administration, this indicated "his conviction of the essential historicity of the narratives in the New Testament",<sup id="cite_ref-times_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> especially in the critique he mounted in his closing pages against "<a href="/wiki/Form_criticism" title="Form criticism">form-criticism</a> of the extremer sort".<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Sherwin-White's Oxford career was not interrupted by his family's move in 1963 to a cottage near <a href="/wiki/Fifield,_Oxfordshire" title="Fifield, Oxfordshire">Fyfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxfordshire" title="Oxfordshire">Oxfordshire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The year 1966 saw the publication of a work "at least eighteen years" in the making:<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> his historical and social commentary on the letters of <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Younger" title="Pliny the Younger">Pliny the Younger</a>, the first such work ever compiled and one not yet superseded.<sup id="cite_ref-times_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Millar's assessment, it "combined immense erudition, percipience and sharpness of vision with a curious slapdashness about small details";<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> these errors were keenly hunted down by contemporary reviewers.<sup id="cite_ref-np_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-np-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same year Sherwin-White became Reader in Ancient History. Although he was a potential choice to succeed <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Syme" title="Ronald Syme">Ronald Syme</a> as <a href="/wiki/Camden_Professor_of_Ancient_History" title="Camden Professor of Ancient History">Camden Professor of Ancient History</a> in 1970, this role went to <a href="/wiki/Peter_Brunt" title="Peter Brunt">Peter Brunt</a>. Sherwin-White did serve as President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies between 1974 and 1977, and his <i>Roman Foreign Policy in the East</i> (1983) appeared four years into his retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died on 1 November 1993 at Fyfield, survived by his wife and two children.<sup id="cite_ref-millar_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-millar-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-times_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-times-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His son, who adopted the professional name <a href="/wiki/David_Sherwin" title="David Sherwin">David Sherwin</a> (1942-2018), was a screenwriter, most famous for the script of the cult classic <a href="/wiki/If...." title="If....">If…</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His daughter, Susan Sherwin-White, was an ancient historian (1945-2016), expert on the Greek islands and the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._N._Sherwin-White&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._N._Sherwin-White&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Roman Citizenship</i> (Oxford, 1939, revised 1973).</li> <li><i>Ancient Rome</i> (London, 1959, revised 1978).</li> <li><i>Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament</i> (Oxford, 1963, based on the <a href="/wiki/Sarum_Lectures" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarum Lectures">Sarum Lectures</a> for 1960–1961).</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Letters_of_Pliny" class="mw-redirect" title="The Letters of Pliny">The Letters of Pliny</a>: A Historical and Social Commentary</i> (Oxford, 1966).</li> <li><i>Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome</i> (Cambridge, 1967, based on the J. H. Gray lectures for 1966).</li> <li><i>Fifty Letters of Pliny</i> (London, 1967, revised 1969).</li> <li><i>Roman Foreign Policy in the East</i> (Norman, 1984).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_articles">Selected articles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._N._Sherwin-White&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Selected articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"Geographical Factors in Roman Algeria". <i>The Journal of Roman Studies</i> 34 (1944): 1–10.</li> <li>"Violence in Roman Politics". <i>The Journal of Roman Studies</i> 46 (1956): 1–9.</li> <li>Review of <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Syme" title="Ronald Syme">R. Syme</a>, <i>Tacitus</i>. <i>The Journal of Roman Studies</i> 49 (1959): 140–146.</li> <li>"The Roman Citizenship: A Survey of Its Development into a World Franchise". <i><a href="/wiki/Aufstieg_und_Niedergang_der_R%C3%B6mischen_Welt" class="mw-redirect" title="Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt">Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt</a></i> 1.2 (1972): 23–58.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=A._N._Sherwin-White&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFA_&_C_Black2007" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/A_%26_C_Black" title="A & C Black">A & C Black</a> (January 2007). 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