William Ross HardieWilliam Ross Hardie (6 January 1862 – 3 May 1916) was a Scottish classical scholar, Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University from 1895 until his death. Hardie was born in Edinburgh in 1862 and educated there at Circus Place School and Edinburh University, where he graduated with an undergraduate Master of Arts (MA hons) degree in 1880, and then at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated BA and later MA.[1] In 1882 he was awarded both the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse and the Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose, among other distinctions, and was considered the "most brilliant undergraduate classicist of his generation". Read More Read Less