Thucydides' Peloponnesian War. Translated by R. Crawley. Revised by Mr. R. Feetham

Richard Feetham (1874-1965), jurist and colonial administrator. Educated at Marlborough College and New College, Oxford, where he studied classics, Feetham then moved to South Africa in 1902 as part of Alfred Milner's reform administration after the South African War. He held various legal and political posts, including town clerk of Johannesburg, member of the Transvaal legislative council, and judge in the Transvaal and Natal divisions. Feetham contributed to the unification of South Africa and chaired major commissions in Northern Ireland (1924-1925), Kenya (1926), and Shanghai (1930-1933), gaining a reputation for judicial integrity and administrative expertise. He was chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand (1938-1961), where he opposed apartheid in higher education. The nephew of classical scholar Richard Crawley, Feetham revised Crawley's English translation of Thucydides in 1903. ODBN