Professor John Healy was a senior scholar and graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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. He served in the Army

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 (Intelligence Corps) then entered an academic career in Classics/Classical Archaeology at Manchester

University of Manchester

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 and London Universities

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. He was the sometime curator of Greek coins at Manchester Museum

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 and President of the Windsor Art Society. He was Dean of the Faculties of Arts and Music and Chairman of the combined Classics Departments of Royal Holloway

Royal Holloway, University of London

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 and Bedford College. He is Emeritus Professor of Classics, University of London and the author of numerous books and articles.

Books Published

(1978): Mining and Metallurgy in the Greek and Roman World, Thames and Hudson, London, ISBN 0-500-40035-0

(1991): Pliny The Elder Natural History, Penguin, Harmondsworth, ISBN 9780140444131

(2000): Pliny The Elder On Science And Technology, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780198146876