Frank Ezra Adcock, 1886-1968: A Memoir

32pp stapled booklet, with two black and white plate illustrations, in light card, printed covers.  12mo.  Covers are a little shelf worn, gently rubbed at edges and slightly sunned around the spine.  Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A memoir of the Frank Ezra Adcock (died 1968), native of Leicester and classical historian, sometime lecturer in the classics and dean and vice-principal of King's College, Cambridge, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History.  In addition to his academic work - which extended to a series of BBC broadcasts, Adcock served as part of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy in the First World War and as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park during the Second World War.