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Alfred Edward Housman born 26 March 1859 in Bromsgrove. Usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, he wrote his famous ‘A Shropshire Lad’ in 1896. Housman was one of the foremost classicists of his age and has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars who ever lived. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar and, on the strength and quality of his work, was appointed Professor of Latin at University College in London, and then at the University of Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan are still considered authoritative.
His ashes are buried just outside St Laurence's Church, Ludlow.
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