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          Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit.!

          Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.

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          5. Maurice Bowra

          English classical scholar, literary critic and academic (1898–1971)

          Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra, CH, FBA (; 8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit.

          He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

          Early life and education

          Birth and boyhood

          Bowra was born in Jiujiang, China, to English parents.[2] His father, Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (1869–1947), who worked for the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs,[3] had been born in Ningbo,[4] and his paternal grandfather, Edward Charles Bowra, had also worked for the Chinese Customs, after serving in the Ever Victorious Army under "Chinese Gordon".[5] Soon after Bowra's birth his father was transferred to the treaty port of Niuzhuang, and the family lived there for the first five years of Bowra's life,[6] exc