He was a devout -even puritanical -Catholic, a published playwright, an Irish language scholar and a teacher.

Congreve, prior to joining the Metropolitan Police, had been a formidable language scholar at Cambridge and never tired of reminding Hawke of it.

I asked him to use his best efforts to locate a Chinese- language scholar, which I assumed would be no easy matter under the circumstances.

She belonged to the dead- language scholars, not to crude red-blooded creatures like himself.

This is a very important project, one that should be welcomed not only by Latin scholars, but by historians, and Irish- language scholars as well.