Dr. G. B. Grundy

GEORGE BEARDOE GRUNDY, son of the Rev. G. B. Grundy, formerly head of Lichfield Grammar School, was born at Aspull in Lancashire in 1861. He was sent to school at Blackheath, but had to earn his living at the age of sixteen, as a teacher, first in a preparatory school, then at Wolffram's army coaching establishment ; and later as head of the Cowley Military Academy, near Oxford. In 1888 he entered Brasenose College as an undergraduate, and obtained second classes in Classical Moderations and Literse Humaniores (1891). In the same year he married. He was already interested in Greek military history, and a geographical studentship enabled him to remain in Oxford, and also to visit the battlefields of Thermopylæ, Marathon and Platæa, where his military knowledge and skill as a field surveyor enabled him to put the study of Greek tactics on a firm basis. His account of Platæa was published by the Royal Geographical Society as a supplement to the Geographical Journal ; other papers appeared in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, including a study and survey of Pylos and Sphacteria.