Duff, James Duff, 1860-1940, classicist and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

James Duff was educated at Fettes and Trinity College, Cambridge where he read Classics 1878-82 (BA 1882, MA 1885), becoming a Fellow of Trinity in 1883. He was an eminent Latinist, a translator of the Loeb Lucan, as well as translating Russian authors, and an editor of many school texts. He was also a College Lecturer in Classics and taught language to Girton and Newnham students for over fifty years.

From the guide to the Personal Papers of James Duff, 1934, (Girton College Library, University of Cambridge)