Trinity College; Westminster School.
After attending Westminster, Hackforth went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1907, graduating in 1909 with first class honours in both parts of the classical tripos. Academic career
After a brief period lecturing at the University of Manchester (1910-1912), Hackforth returned to Cambridge as a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College in 1912, a position he held for the remainder of his life. Hackforth produced two chapters for the Cambridge Ancient History on the history of Sicily in part of the fifth and fourth centuries British Columbia, which utilised his interpretation of the literary evidence of Pindar, Bacchylides and the Epistles of Plato.
Hackforth was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1946.
Personal
Hackforth was the younger son of Justice of the Peace Hackforth. Hackforth"s Cambridge address was 4 Selwyn Gardens.
He died in Cambridge, aged 69.
