Background
DUFF, John Wight was born on September 4, 1866 in Dundee. Son of late William Dulf, iron-founder, and Sarah Fergusson Wight. N. of late Reverend Professor Duff, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, Edinburgh.
DUFF, John Wight was born on September 4, 1866 in Dundee. Son of late William Dulf, iron-founder, and Sarah Fergusson Wight. N. of late Reverend Professor Duff, Doctor of Divinity, Doctor of Laws, Edinburgh.
Studied at Aberdeen Grammar School (Gold medallist and Latin dux). Aberdeen University (Simpson Greek Prizeman). Pembroke College, Oxford (scholar).
1st class Classical Modus. 1st class Classics; Leipzig University. Master of Arts (Oxfordshire. and Aberdeen).
Doctor of Literature (Durham).
Assistant-Professor of Greek, Aberdeen, 1891-1893. Professor of Classics and English, at Newcastle, 1893-1898. And after the creation of separate chairs, Professor of Classics.
Examiner in Classics to the University of Aberdeen, 1902-1905, and to the University of Durham frequently since 1894. Examiner for Hertford University Scholarship, Oxford, 1910. Examiner on Joint Board of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, and Sheffield.
Has visited many of the principal remains of classical antiquity in Provence, Italy, Greece, Crete, and Asia Minor. Professor of Classics, Armstrong College, Newcastle - 011- Tyne.
Spouse 1897, Lizzie Taylor Mackay.