Dan Davin

Daniel Marcus Davin was born in Invercargill on 1 September 1913, the fourth child of a railwayman; his parents were Catholics of Irish origin. Brought up in Gore and then in Invercargill, with the Marist Brothers, he taught himself to read. A graduate in English and Latin at Otago, a Rhodes scholar at Balliol from 1936, he served during the war in the British and then the New Zealand army, was wounded in Crete and became an intelligence officer. He worked at Oxford University Press from 1945 to 1978 and died in Oxford on 28 September 1990.

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