Kenneth Dover

Sir Kenneth James Dover, FRSE, FBA (born March 11, 1920) is a distinguished British academic who is currently Chancellor of the University of St Andrews. Born in London, he was educated at the city's St Paul's School before going on to study at Balliol College, Oxford. After serving with the Royal Artillery during the Second World War (being mentioned in dispatches for his service in Italy), he returned to Oxford and became Fellow and tutor at his old college in 1948. In 1955, he was appointed Professor of Greek at St Andrews, and was twice Dean of the university's Faculty of Arts during his twenty-one years there.

In 1976, Sir Kenneth became President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a post he held for ten years, and during the 1980s held positions at Cornell University and Stanford University. In 1978, he was elected to the presidency of the British Academy, of which he has been a Fellow since 1966, and served for a term of three years. He was also elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1975, and received a knighthood two years later for services to Greek scholarship.

Sir Kenneth Dover returned to St Andrews as the university's chancellor in 1981. He has received honorary degrees from the Universities of Oxford, St Andrews, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Durham, Liverpool, and Oglethorpe. He is also a foreign member of the American and the Royal Netherlands Academies of Arts and Sciences.

Sir Kenneth's scholarly works include Greek World Order (1960), Aristophanic Comedy (1972), Greek Homosexuality (1978), and The Greeks and their Legacy (1989).