“ Rackham was a most successful teacher of the classics, and in spite of the attraction which ancient philosophy had for him and his lucid powers of expounding it he lectured with equal success on a wide range of authors, and also on Greek history. ”

“ Mr. Harris Rackham, Fellow of Christ's Church, Cambridge, died early yesterday. By his death Cambridge loses a fine classical scholar and Christ's College a loyal and influential member.
Born on December 22, 1868, the son of A. T. Rackham, Admiralty marshal, Rackham was educated at the City of London School and went to Christ's College as a scholar in 1887. After two first classes in the Classical Tripos he was elected a Fellow in 1894, and was afterwards appointed to various college offices. Under the statutes of 1926 he became a university lecturer in classics. ”

“ Still more closely he followed problems pf social welfare and economics and those fields of public service in which an active part was taken by his wife; in politics he sympathized strongly with the Labour Party. ”