Biography

Stubbings was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a First in Classics, the Porson Prize for Greek verse composition and the Chancellor's Medal for Classics. He joined the British School at Athens in 1937-8 to excavate Mycenaean material at Ithaca and then in 1939 at Mycenae. During World War II he served in the British legation at Athens and then at the British embassy to the Greek government in Cairo. In 1945 he resumed a research fellowship at Emmanuel College, to which he had originally been appointed for 3 years in June 1939 just before the outbreak of war. Completing his PhD in 1948 ('Mycenaean Pottery from the Levant', CUP 1951), he was appointed to a University of Cambridge lectureship in 1949 where he remained until formal retirement in 1980. With A.J.B. Wace he was joint editor of the 'Companion to Homer' (Macmillan, 1962). He was University Orator 1974-1982, Emmanuel College Librarian 1959-1980 and honorary keeper of special collections at Emmanuel College library from 1980 to September 2000.

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