Sir Arthur F. Hort (1864–1935) 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 became the 6th
baronet Hort of Castle Strange.
He married Helen Frances Bell in 1894.
Works
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Life and Letters of Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896) Part 1 Part 2
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(ed.) The Gospel According to St Mark (1907)
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(ed.) Books I and II by Livy
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(ed.) Book V by Livy
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(ed.) Selection from 'Hercules Furens' by Euripides
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(tr). Enquiry into Plants by Theophrastus (1916) (in two volumes). London: William Heinemann, and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
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Brian Piers Lascelles: A Memoir (1924)
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The Unconventional Garden (1928)
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Garden Variety (1935)
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(tr. with Mary Letitia Green) The "Critica Botanica" of Linnaeus by Carl Linnaeus (1938)
