Professor Francis William Haslam, who holds the Chair of Classics at Canterbury College, was born in Ceylon in 1848 and was educated at Rugby where he became head of the school, and obtained an exhibition. Proceeding to Cambridge he won an open exhibition and foundation scholarship and graduated B.A., first class in the Classical Tripos of 1871. Professor Haslam became a master at Tunbridge school, was afterwards the head of the classical department in the United Service College, Westward Ho, and was appointed at the end of 1879 to the Chair of Classics at Canterbury College. He was a member of the Royal North Devon Golf Club, and since settling in Canterbury has been connected with the Christchurch Golf Club.