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David Mowbray Balme
Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast
In office
1948 – June 1957
Preceded byFirst Principal
Succeeded byRaymond Henry Stoughton
Professor and Chairman of Classics
In office
1965–?
Personal details
Born(1912-09-08)8 September 1912
Carlisle
Died23 February 1989(1989-02-23) (aged 76)
SpouseMargaret
Children5
EducationUniversity of Cambridge
Alma materClare College, Cambridge
ProfessionAcademic
Known forFirst and only Principal of the University College of the Gold Coast
Military service
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Branch/serviceRoyal Air Force
Years of service1940 - 1945
RankWing commander
AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross
Distinguished Service Order

David Mowbray Balme (8 September 1912 — 23 February 1989)[1] was a British expatriate professor and scholar who became the first principal of the University College of the Gold Coast which is now University of Ghana.[2] The Balme Library was named after him.[2]

A banquet was held in his honour at the Commonwealth Hall of the university on the eve of his departure from Ghana. He was presented with an emblem of the university, a crowing cock carved in ivory, by the University Council. He left Ghana the next day to take up his new position as Reader in classics at Queen Mary's College, University of London.[3]

Publication

  • Aristotle; Gotthelf, Alan; Balme, David M. (Translator) (1 January 1991). Balme, David M. (ed.). Aristotle History of Animals : Books VII-X (Loeb Classical Library, No. 439). Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674994836. {{cite book}}: |author3= has generic name (help)[4]
  • Aristotle; Balme, D. M. (Translator); Gotthelf, Alan (Contrbutor) (24 December 1992). Aristotle's De partibus animalium I and, De generatione animalium I : (with passages from II. 1-3) (2nd ed.). New York: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0198751281. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)[5]
  • Aristotle (18 November 2002). Balme, David M.; Gettholf, Alan (prepared for publication) (eds.). Aristotle: 'Historia Animalium': Volume 1, Books I-X: Text (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 38) (First ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521480024.

References

  1. ^ A Commemorative brochure of tributes to David Mowbray Balme (September 8, 1912-February 23, 1989) in the Great Hall, University of Ghana, Legon on Saturday, April 22, 1989. University of Ghana. 1989. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Philosophy Department". ug.edu.gh. Archived from the original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. ^ "University say farewell to Principal". Daily Graphic. Accra: Graphic Communications Group Ltd. 10 June 1957.
  4. ^ Aristotle History of Animals : Books VII-X (Loeb Classical Library, No. 439). ISBN 0674994833.
  5. ^ Aristotle; Gotthelf, Allan (1992). De Partibus Animalium I and De Generatione Animalium I (With Passages from II.1-3 2nd Edition. ISBN 0198751281.

External source


source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mowbray_Balme