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Malcolm Maurice Willcock (1 October 1925 – 2 May 2006) was a British classical scholar. He specialised in Ancient Greek poetry, particularly the Homeric poems, but also published on other Greek and Latin literature, including the Greek authors Pindar and Xenophon and the Roman poet Virgil. After reading classics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he undertook National Service in the Royal Air Force before commencing his academic career at Cambridge. He moved to the newly founded University of Lancaster in 1965 as its first professor of classics, before taking up the professorship of Latin at University College London (UCL) in 1980.