John Martyn

John Martyn, head boy at Marlborough College and scholar at Cambridge, was promoted to a professorship at Melbourne University, and discovered an unknown manuscript, with 40 letters sent by Pope Gregory. After studying collections of his letters in England, Germany and Italy, none had its colored capital letters, or was free of mistakes, or mixed its capitals. Retiring in 2000, he became a Principal Fellow in the School of Historical Studies, buying a property on the Mornington Peninsula, writing books and reviewing many, giving occasional lectures at University and the Melbourne and Australian Clubs.