Sir Arthur F. Hort (1864–1935) was a schoolmaster at Harrow School. He is known for his translation of Theophrastus's "Enquiry into Plants". Biography. Arthur Fenton Hort was born in 1864 to Fanny Henrietta Hort and the biblical scholar Fenton John Anthony Hort. He was educated in Classics and became a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and worked as a schoolmaster at Harrow School, London, where he became a housemaster; he was interested in gardening. He became the 6th baronet Hort of Castle Strange. He married Helen Frances Bell in 1894.