Desmond Conacher
Desmond and Mary after their wedding, 1952.
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Desmond Conacher.
Prof. Desmond J. Conacher, PhD,
FRSC.
Des, born 27 Dec 1918.
BA 1941,
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario.
Medal in Greek.
MA 1942.
Nuffield fellow.
He
mar 2 Aug 1952 to
Mary Smith
[English, born
Hopwas, Staffordshire].
She was
Anglo-Irish on her mother's side.
Somehow
related to
Blennerhassett
through the Bernard family.
Desmond was
in Classics Dept,
University of Saskatchewan, Canada,
in early 1950s.
See
article.
Assistant Professor as at 1958.
Professor Emeritus of Classics,
Dept. Classics,
Trinity College,
University of Toronto.
He was author of:
- Euripidean Drama.
- Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: A Literary Commentary, c.1983.
Reviewed in Classical Bulletin, 59:15-16, 1983.
- Aeschylus' Oresteia: A Literary Commentary, 1987.
- Euripides' Alcestis, 1988.
He and Mary were special guests at
Greek theatre,
Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, in 1995 and 1996.
He was
described as
"Canada's leading authority on Greek Tragedy".
See
letter in Dec 1996.
He died Mon 23 Oct 2000, age 81 yrs.
They had adopted issue:
- Hugh Conacher, partner of Marion DeGraves and had issue:
- Genevieve DeGraves.
- Susan Conacher.
Desmond Conacher,
Cashel House, 1922.
