Henry St. John Thackeray (1869–30 June 1930) was a British biblical scholar at King's College, Cambridge, an expert on Koine Greek, Josephus and the Septuagint.
Life He was the son of Francis St John Thackeray and nephew to the author William Makepeace Thackeray.
He was a scholar of King's College, University of Cambridge, who is perhaps best remembered for his work on Josephus, for his Grammar of Old Testament Greek and for his translation of Friedrich Blass' Grammar of New Testament Greek.
He also worked as the Grinfield Lecturer on the Septuagint at Oxford University.
His untimely death at the age of sixty-one in 1930 abruptly ended his work as editor and translator of Josephus's works for the Loeb Classical Library, after producing the first four volumes, and preparing part of the fifth, of a projected series of nine volumes. The work was then carried on by the American scholar, Ralph Marcus, and after him by Allen Wikgren and lastly Louis Feldman.
Family He was married to Lucy Elizabeth Orr; his sister-in-law was the astronomer and writer Mary Acworth Evershed.
He was the father of the astronomer A. David Thackeray.
His papers are held at Eton College.
Selected works
The Letter of Aristeas Introduction and Greek Text, as an appendix in
The Septuagint and Jewish Worship: A Study in Origins (1923) C S Lewis website, Library, accessed 10 March 2026
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