Arthur Hort

Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet (1864–1935) was a schoolmaster at Harrow School. He is known for his translation of Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants.

Biography

Arthur Fenton Hort was born in 1864 to Fanny Henrietta Hort and the biblical scholar Fenton John Anthony Hort. He was educated in Classics and became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked as a schoolmaster at Harrow School, London, where he became a housemaster; he was interested in gardening. He married Helen Frances Bell in 1894. In 1904 he succeeded a cousin to became the 6th Hort baronet of Castle Strange.

Works

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Title page of Sir Arthur Hort's edition of Theophrastus's Enquiry into Plants with parallel Greek and English text, 1916

• Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896) Part 1 Part 2
• (ed.) The Gospel According to St Mark (1907)
• (ed.) Books I and II by Livy
• (ed.) Book V by Livy
• (ed.) Selection from 'Hercules Furens' by Euripides
• (tr). Enquiry into Plants by Theophrastus (1916) (in two volumes). London: William Heinemann, and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
• Brian Piers Lascelles: A Memoir (1924)
• The Unconventional Garden (1928)
• Garden Variety (1935)
• (tr. with Mary Letitia Green) The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus by Carl Linnaeus (1938)