George Augustus Simcox

George Augustus Simcox (1841–1905) was an English poet and classical scholar.

Life
He was educated at the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.

He was also a critic and busy literary reviewer, in magazines such as the Argosy, the Fortnightly Review and the Academy; and essayist for The Nation. He published some substantial poems, on Arthurian themes in particular.

Simcox died in unexplained circumstances on the Irish coast.

Family
The theological writer and biographer William Henry Simcox was his brother, and the activist Edith Jemima Simcox his sister. The Simcoxes were well known and well connected in English intellectual circles; Edith was a friend of George Eliot's, and William wrote the first major biography of Barnabe Barnes, the famous 16th-century poet and patron of William Shakespeare.

Works

 * Prometheus Unbound. A Tragedy (1867)
 * Thirteen Satires of Juvenal.(1867)
 * Poems and Romances (1869)
 * The Orations of Demosthenes and Aeschines on the Crown (1872) with W. H. Simcox
 * Recollections of a Rambler (1874)
 * Thucydides (1875) editor
 * A History of Latin Literature: from Ennius to Boethius (1883) two volumes
 * Encyclopaedia Biblica (contributor) (1903)