Samuel Edward Winbolt (1868–1944) was a British schoolmaster, classicist, author, antiquary and field archaeologist whose career bridged the worlds of late-Victorian classical education and the rapidly developing archaeology of inter-war Britain. Although archaeology was not his original profession, it became the work for which he was best known in later life, particularly through his excavations of Roman sites in southern England and his investigation of Roman roads.
He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he subsequently returned as a master in classics and history. Whilst there he published some educational editions of the classics and other works on history and English literature. His classical training naturally turned his attention to Roman history and archaeology, which led him to spend much time in British and continental museums, and on which he gave BBC talks.
He began practical archaeological excavations in 1922 and went on to unearth four Roman villas, a Romano-Celtic Temple on Farley Heath, Surrey and two Roman posting stations, made countless sections of Roman roads and found and dug a score of medieval glasshouse sites. Added to this he investigated six Early Iron Age camps in Sussex, Surrey and Kent. He also wrote four titles in the Penguin Guides series, which provided post-war touring guides to the English counties.
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Title Publisher Publication Date Notes English Poetry for the Young Blackie and Son 1904 The Latin Hexameter: Hints for Sixth Forms Blackie and Son 1906 The Virgil Pocket Book Archibald Constable and Company 1907 Arranged by S. E. Winbolt England and Napoleon (1801-1815) G. Bell & Sons 1912 American independence and the French Revolution (1760-1801) G. Bell & Sons 1912 Spenser & Shelley & their Poetry George G. Harrap & Company 1912 Dialogues of Roman Life G. Bell & Sons 1913 Text on Wikisource The Horace Pocket Book G. Bell & Sons 1914 Arranged by S. E. Winbolt Spenser & his Poetry George G. Harrap & Company 1918 The Poetry And Prose Of Coleridge Lamb And Leigh Hunt W J Bryce 1920 Edited by S. E. Winbolt Poems By Alfred Lord Tennyson G. Bell & Sons 1923 Edited by S. E. Winbolt Roman Folkestone Methuen & Co 1925 Excavation at Farley Heath, Albury, 1926Surrey Archaeological Collections1926https://archive.org/details/p2surreyarchaeol37surr/page/180/mode/2up A Survey of English Grammar Blackie and Son Bell's Pocket Guide to Somerset G. Bell & Sons 1929 Bell's Pocket Guide to Devon G. Bell & Sons 1929 Bell's Pocket Guide to Kent G. Bell & Sons 1930 Bell's Pocket guide to The Chilterns and the Thames Valley (from Iffley to Staines) G. Bell & Sons 1932 Dry Hill Camp, Lingfield Surrey Archaeological Collections 1933 Pamphlet co-written with I. D. Margary Wealden Glass. The Surrey-Sussex Glass Industry (A.D. 1226–1615) Combridges, Hove 1933 With A Spade On Stane Street Methuen 1936 Britain B.C. Penguin 1943 Britain under the Romans Penguin 1945 Penguin Guides - Kent, Sussex & Surrey Penguin 1939 Penguin Guides - Somerset Penguin 1939 Penguin Guides - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Penguin 1949 Penguin Guides - Herts and Bucks Penguin 1949 The Roman Villa at Bignor, Sussex: With a Plan of the Villa Tallyer Ltd 1963 Co-written with George Herbert Moore The Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin Horsham Sussex Church Publishers 1968 Pamphlet
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