Horsfall, Nicholas Mark, son of Cdr. Thomas Mendelssohn Horsfall OBE RN, and Sonia Horsfall, BBC Russian Service, d. of Oscar Szapiro, med. practitioner, of Vilnius, Lithuania; b. 19 Sept. 1946; adm. Sept. 1959 (QS); left Dec. 1963; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1964, BA 1967 (1st class hons Class. Trip. Pts 1 & 2), MA 1971; Hallam Prize 1965, Montagu Butler Prize 1966, Chancellor’s Medal 1967; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxf. (sen. schol. ) 1968-71, MA DPhil 1971; lecturer in Greek and Latin, UCL 1971-87; invited lecturer, Univ. of Camb. 1974-6; visiting Prof., Colgate Univ. USA 1976; visiting res. Fellow, Macquarie Univ., NSW, Australia 1980; Balsdon sen. res. Fellow, British Sch. at Rome, Italy 1985; resident in Italy 1987-2000; visiting Prof. Univ. of Cassino 1987-8, Istituto Orientale, Naples, 1988-9; now resident in Scotland; hon. Prof., Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, Univ. of Durham; author, commmentaries on Virgil, Aeneid; m. 1st, 1969 Julia Loraine, d. of A.B. Robinson of Gateshead, Co. Durham; 2nd, 1986 Mariateresa, d. of Prof. Mario Scotti, scholar and poet, of Rome, Italy; d. 1 Jan. 2019