Background
WINTERBOTTOM, Michael was born on September 22, 1934 in Sale, Cheshire. Son of Allan Winterbottom and Kathleen Mary Winterbottom (née Wallis).
university professor classical philologist
WINTERBOTTOM, Michael was born on September 22, 1934 in Sale, Cheshire. Son of Allan Winterbottom and Kathleen Mary Winterbottom (née Wallis).
After studying classical antiquity science at Dulwich College, Professor Winterbottom attended Pembroke College, Oxford, where he completed his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy. He completed his doctoral work at Merton College and Christ Church, Oxford, before working as a lecturer in Latin and Greek at University College London (1962–1967).
Between 1967 and 1992 he was an academic tutor and fellow in classics at Worcester College, Oxford (1967–1992), teaching Latin and Greek Literature from 1990 to 1992. In 1992 he was appointed the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at Corpus Christi College, a post he retained until his retirement in 2001. He remains an Emeritus Fellow of Worcester College and Corpus Christi.
Winterbootm has worked widely on the Latin prose of the classical, late antique and medieval periods, producing editions in particular for the Oxford Classical Texts and Oxford Medieval Texts series.
These include the writings De Officiis of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Quintilian"s Institutio Oratoria and the smaller writings of Tacitus, but also works of medieval authors such as Gildas, Abbo of Fleury, Dunstan of Canterbury. He has since 1998, in collaboration with Royal Marines Thomson, produced texts and translations of several books by the twelfth-century author William of Malmesbury.
He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (now Emeritus) in 1978.
Married 1st Helen Spencer in 1963 (divorced in 1983), twfo son. Married 2nd Nicolette Janet Streatfeild Bergel in 1986.