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{{Short description|British classical scholar (1887–1957)}}
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'''Reginald Hackforth''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (17 August 1887 – 6 May 1957<ref>[http://www.aristarchus.unige.it/cphcl/schede.php?word=fn Catologus Philogorum Classicorum 1880-1980]</ref>) was an English [[classical scholar]], known mainly for his work on [[Plato]], and from 1939 to 1952 was the second [[Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy]] at [[Cambridge University]].

==Life==

===Early life===
Hackforth was born in London. After attending [[Westminster School|Westminster]], Hackforth went up to [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], in 1907, graduating in 1909 with [[first class honours]] in both parts of the classical [[tripos]]. He was [[John Stewart of Rannoch Scholarship|John Stewart of Rannoch Scholar]] in 1907, Davies scholar in 1908 and won the Chancellor's Medal in 1909.<ref name="The Times">Obituary in ''[[The Times]]'' 7 May 1957</ref>

===Academic career===
After a brief period lecturing at the [[University of Manchester]] (1910–12), Hackforth returned to Cambridge as a [[Fellow]] of [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex College]] in 1912, a position he held for the remainder of his life.<ref name="The Times"/> For many years he served as editor of the ''Classical Quarterly'', winning the respect and friendship of [[J. D. Denniston]] and [[A. E. Housman]].<ref>[[Donald Struan Robertson]] in ''The Times'' 13 May 1957</ref>

Hackforth produced two chapters for the ''Cambridge Ancient History'' on the history of [[Sicily]] in part of the fifth and fourth centuries BC, which utilised his interpretation of the literary evidence of [[Pindar]], [[Bacchylides]] and the [[Epistles (Plato)|Epistles]] of [[Plato]].<ref>[[Frank Adcock]] in ''The Times'' 9 May 1957</ref>

Hackforth was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] in 1946.<ref>[http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/dec.cfm?member=3549 British Academy Fellowship entry]</ref>

===Personal===
Hackforth was the younger son of J.P. Hackforth.<ref name="The Times"/> In 1922 he married Lily Mines, daughter of H.R. Mines, H.M. Inspector of Schools,<ref name="Who Was Who">''Who Was Who'', London : A. & C. Black, 3rd ed., 1967, p. 466</ref>
who was buried with him in the [[Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge|Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground]] in Cambridge after her own death in 1975.

Hackforth's Cambridge address was 4 Selwyn Gardens.<ref name="Who Was Who"/> He died in [[Cambridge]], aged 69.

==Publications==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=pnzIx-mH41oC&q=%22reginald+hackforth%22&pg=PA25 ''The Authorship of the Platonic Epistles'']. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1913.
* ''The composition of'' [[Plato|''Plato's'']] [[Apology (Plato)|''Apology'']]. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933.
* ''Plato's examination of pleasure: a translation of the ''[[Philebus]]'' with an introduction and commentary''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1945
* ''Plato's ''[[Phaedrus (dialogue)|Phaedrus]]'': translated with an introduction and commentary''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952.
* ''Plato's ''[[Phaedo]]'': translated with an introduction and commentary''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.

==References==
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