Arthur Hort

Sir Arthur Fenton Hort, 6th Baronet 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

Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort The Gospel According to St Mark Books I and II by LivyBook V by LivySelection from 'Hercules Furens by Euripides

. Enquiry into Plants by Theophrastus . London: William Heinemann, and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.

' The Unconventional Garden Garden Variety The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus'' by Carl Linnaeus