W. Warde Fowler

William Warde Fowler (1847–1921) was an English historian of ancient Rome and an ornithologist. A fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford, for most of his life, he wrote The City-State of the Greeks and Romans (1893), The Roman Festivals of the Period of the Republic (1899), Social Life at Rome in the Age of Cicero (1908) and The Religious Experience of the Roman People (1911), the Gifford Lectures he gave at Edinburgh, which together made him the leading English authority on Roman religion. He lived at Kingham in the Cotswolds and published A Year with the Birds and other observations of English bird life.