My former tutor John Bramble, who has died aged 78, was one of a group of Latinists who, between the late 1960s and 80s, used new critical approaches to rejuvenate the study of ancient Latin texts.
John was born in Salford to Clifton Bramble, a finance manager in the Manchester Corporation’s transport department, and Louisa (nee Murray), an administrator with the Co-operative wholesale society.
