Identity area
Reference code
SJCR/SJAC/1/2/Sikes
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Title
Date(s)
- 1897-1925 (Creation)
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Sub-sub-series
Extent and medium
2 files and 8 items; paper
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Edward Ernest Sikes was born on the 26th April, 1867, in Kent, and educated at Aldenham School. At the end of 1885, he was awarded a scholarship at St John’s College, where he would also go on to win a Brown Medal and achieve first place in the First Class in Part I of the Classical Tripos of 1889. He later went out to study at the British School at Athens, before being elected to a Fellowship in 1891.
Sikes’ career at St John’s continued when the next year he was awarded the title of Assistant Lecturer; and, then, Lecturer, a position which he held from 1894 to 1938. He became a Tutor in 1900, a task which he undertook for the next twenty-five years.
When not teaching, Sikes was also a prolific author, publishing works such as Roman Poetry, The Greek View of Poetry, and a translation of Hero and Leander. He was also known to enjoy football, cricket, and music; Sikes was a Chairman of the Smoking Concerts, and President of the musical society.
Sikes remained at St John’s for almost all of the rest of his life, with the exclusion of a brief tenure as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. He died at Bournemouth, on the 5th February 1940.
Obituary in the Eagle: Vol. 52, Mich 1941, p. 43.
Accessible online at:
https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Eagle/Eagle%20Volumes/1940s/1942/Eagle_1941_Michaelmas.pdf
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Includes: tutorial notebooks of Edward E. Sikes, tutor, giving details of pupils' courses, exams, and sometimes other aspects of College and later career (dates are of admission).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
The files are arranged chronologically.