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"ARTHUR SIDGWICK (1840-1920), English scholar ( see 2 5.39), was in his later years an ardent advocate of the abolition of compulsory Greek at Oxford, both in the interest of the classics and with the view of extending the field whence the university should draw its students. He was also a warm supporter of the admission of women to the university degrees, as he Siegecraft And Siege Warfare had previously been both of woman suffrage and indeed of all aspects of the higher education of women. He died at Oxford, Sept. 25 1920.

His elder brother, William Carr Sidgwick (1834-1919), also a classical scholar and fellow of Merton College, Oxford, died at Rugby, Oct. 1S 1919.