Robert Yelverton Tyrrell
Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, FBA was an Irish classical scholar who was Regius Professor of Greek at Trinity College, Dublin.Biography
He was educated at Trinity College where he subsequently became a fellow in 1868 and professor of Latin in 1871. From 1880 to 1898, he was Regius professor of Greek, and from 1900 to 1904 professor of ancient history. He was a Commissioner of Education for Ireland and one of the original fellows of the British Academy. He was a first cousin to the disgraced modernist writer and excommunicated Catholic priest George Tyrrell SJ.Works
Amongst his published works were:
