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Darius
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Davidson, Angus H. G.
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Angus H. G. Davidson (1898-1980) was an assistant at Hogarth Press, from 1924 to 1927. He worked as a writer, a translator (translating works by Mario Praz and Alberto Moravia) as well as in the publishing industry.
Davies, M. B.
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M. Bryn Davies studied at the Universities of Wales and Oxford. He was professor at the Fuad I University of Cairo (Department of English) and taught at universities in India, Ghana, Australia and Canada. He published articles and edited editions.
Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray
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Richard MacGilivray Dawkins (1871-1955) was a British archaeologist and a linguist. He studied comparative literature at Cambridge and served as Director of the British School of Athens (1906-1914). He conducted important excavations in various locations (in Crete, Melos and Sparta - Greece) and became professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language at Oxford (1920-1939). He lived in Greece for 16 years and travelled throughout the then Greek state as well as across the Aegean, in Asia Minor, the Black Sea and Cappadocia, studying and recording the dialects and local cultures and publishing relevant studies.