[William Walter]. English classical scholar, born at Evesham on the 6th of September 1835. Educated at Cheltenham and Balliol College, Oxford, he became fellow and lecturer of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1859 and rector of the college in 1884. A witty and fluent speaker both in Latin and in English, he acquired a great reputation as public orator to the university, a post he held from 1880 down to the time of his death. He published editions of many of the plays of Aristophanes (1870–1900), as well as an edition of Homer’s Odyssey (1870–78) and Selected Fragments of Roman Poetry (1891). He died at Oxford on the 5th of March 1918.
