William Beare (20 April 1900, Ireland â 1963, Bristol, England) was a British Latinist and president of the Classical Association for the academic year 1962âÂÂ1963.
After graduating from Trinity College Dublin, William Beare became a lecturer at the University of Manchester. From 1931 until his death in 1963, he was a professor of Latin at the University of Bristol. During 1940 he sometimes lectured for the UK's Ministry of Information. From 1946 to 1949 he was Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Bristol.
On 1 August 1934, William Beare married Sylvia Joan Gibson (1910âÂÂ1996) in St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales.
For the academic year 1955âÂÂ1956 he was in the United States as the Charles Norton Lecturer of the Archaeological Institute of America. During that time he lectured on Roman drama at more than 40 colleges and other institutions from Maine to California.
In 1962, the Swedish Academy accepted Beare as nominator in nominating the classicist H. D. F. Kitto for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
William Beare died in the summer of 1963. He was eulogised by G. T. W. Hooker as "a modest, sober, humane, and forthright scholar, ÃÂÿøõùýὸàÃÂÿá¿ÂàÃÂïûÿùÃÂ."