Frank Walbank photographed as Sather Professor, University of California Berkeley..
Frank Walbank, Born 1909
PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY
Frank William Walbank (1909 - 2008) was an internationally renowned scholar of ancient history, most notable for his seminal studies of Polybius. He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge. From 1951 to 1977 Walbank was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool. He held visiting positions at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In retirement he moved to Cambridge, living close to his daughter Dorothy Thompson, also an eminent ancient historian, who specialises in the papyrology of Hellenistic Egypt.
Source: Provided to Lives Retold by Dorothy Thompson, Frank Walbank’s daughter, in 2019.
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His father: Walbank, Albert. Born 1879. (16 pages) Teacher.
His grandfather: Walbank, William. Born 1840. (13 pages). Boot mender.