Oliffe Legh Richmond

In 1919, Richmond was elected to the vacant Chair of Humanity at the University of Edinburgh, left empty by the death of William Ross Hardie in 1916, but not yet filled owing to the war. His iaugural lecture, delivered on the 14th of October 1919, was entitled 'Classics and the scientific mind'.^[4] In 1928 Richmond published his Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit novoque adparatu critico instruxit with the Cambridge University Press. However, his ingenious theories about the structure of Propertius' elegies and the system of 'Lettercraft', allegedly used by authors to conceal information in their writing, are now generally discredited.^[5]

He was succeeded in the Humanity Chair by Michael Grant.

Richmond married Beryl Violet Griffith, daughter of Very Rev. Charles Edward Thomas Griffith and Margaret Beatrice Mynors, on 30 December 1919 at Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales. He later married Edith Ursula Winser, daughter of Charles John Winser and Anne Catherine Cooke Kettle, in December 1934 at London, England. He died on 27 May 1977 at age 95 at 3 Silchester Hall, Silchester Common, Reading.