Peter Brunt
Peter Astbury Brunt FBA (23 June 1917 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England – 5 November 2005 in Oxford) was an ancient historian at Oxford University.
Brunt, the son of a Methodist minister, was educated at Ipswich School and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating in 1939.
During World War II Brunt served in the Ministry of Shipping. He began his academic career at St Andrew's University before returning to Oriel College as Fellow from 1951 until 1968 when he moved to Cambridge to become the Senior Bursar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.
In 1970 Brunt returned to Oxford as a Fellow of Brasenose College to take up the Camden Professorship of Ancient History until 1982.
Brunt was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1969 and was president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 1980 to 1983.
Brunt's magnum opus was his 1971 study of the Roman working classes: Italian manpower 225 BC-AD 14.
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