The name Freeman comes from?

My uncle Freeman who died in World War I. That was the big tragedy in the family. He had been a classical scholar ­– also a schoolmaster – but a... really a high level classical scholar who... wrote about Hesiod. Hesiod was his particular author and he... I think he'd written a book about Hesiod or at least an edition of Hesiod. He was a serious scholar and he loved teaching kids Latin and Greek classics.

And this is your mother's brother?

That was my mother's brother, so... and so he and my mother were very close friends, and he was also a colleague of my father's and... so that's how they were brought together. After my... after Uncle Freeman died they got married and... so that's how we got... that's how we originated. So the memory of Freeman... the memory of Uncle Freeman was very strong in the family. And I did a lot of Latin and Greek in school and also enjoyed it. It was... I had a... a keen interest in languages, not a... particularly as spoken languages but as literature. So I never was much good at spoken languages, but I loved to read Latin and Greek and... of course, they were taught purely as literary languages, not as spoken languages.