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Glover/A/A5/38
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- 27 May 1938 (Creation)
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Glover was the eldest son of Richard Glover, a Baptist minister from Bristol. He was admitted to St John's as a scholar in 1888 and, after gaining a first in both parts of the Classical Tripos, was elected a Fellow of the College in 1892. Four years later he went to Canada to take up the post of Professor of Latin at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He returned to St John's as a teaching Fellow in 1901, and in 1911 was appointed to a University Lectureship in ancient history. He held the post of Orator at Cambridge, and was twice Proctor.
Glover was a prolific author. Many of his books and essays were on a classical theme, 'Studies in Virgil' (1904), 'Herodotus' (1924), 'Democracy in the Ancient World' (1927), and 'Greek Byways' (1932) being just a few of his titles. His restless intellect also took in other themes. 'Poets and Puritans' (1915) included essays on Bunyan and Boswell. 'The Jesus of History' (1917) made Glover's name known to thousands of non-classicists, while 'A corner of Empire: the old Ontario Strand' (1937) reflected his deep love of Canada, fostered during his five years' residence. Glover was also known as an avid letter writer, his thoughts on many subjects appearing frequently in the pages of 'The Times'. A deeply religious man, Glover was immensely proud of being elected to the post of President of the Baptist Union in 1924.
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Manuscript letter, in which Glover writes that he keeps thinking of Carlile and of a long ministry. There is a haunting line in Euripides' 'Hippolytus', where the dying hero says: "Full easily dost thou leave a long friendship" and Carlile cannot leave an old intimacy lightly. Sunday will not be a day of rejoicing for him; it cannot be, but it is, whatever Carlile feels, a day of thanksgiving. When one looks at one's friends and thinks how much they have done for oneself, without either of themselves realising it, why then it grows conceviable that love and service are not in vain. Carlile knows this and doesn't need an old College don like Glover to tell him this. But Carlile should let Glover for once add his thanks among the others, and let him say that Carlile doesn't know all he has done and is doing - that he isn't meant to know, but that other people know in bits and God knows all.