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BADHAM, CHARLES (1813-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 189 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BADHAM, See also:CHARLES (1813-1884) , See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Ludlow, in See also:Shropshire, on the 18th of See also:July 1813. His See also:father, Charles Badham, translator of See also:Juvenal.and an excellent classical scholar, was regius See also:professor of physic at See also:Glasgow; his See also:mother was a See also:cousin of See also:Thomas See also:Campbell, the poet. When about seven years old, Badham was sent to See also:Switzerland, where he became a See also:pupil of See also:Pestalozzi. He was afterwards transferred to See also:Eton, and in 183o was elected to a scholarship at Wadham See also:College, See also:Oxford, but only obtained a third class in See also:classics (1836), a failure which may have been due to his dislike of the methods of study then in See also:fashion at Oxford, at a See also:time when classical scholar-See also:ship was in a very unsatisfactory See also:condition. Shortly after taking his degree in 1837 Badham went to See also:Italy, where he occupied himself in the study of See also:ancient See also:MSS., in particular those of the Vatican library. It was here that he began a See also:life-See also:long friendship with G. C. See also:Cobet. He afterwards spent some time in See also:Germany, and on his return to See also:England was incorporated M.A. at See also:Peter-See also:house, See also:Cambridge, in 1847. Having taken See also:holy orders, he was appointed headmaster of See also:Louth See also:grammar school, See also:Lincolnshire (1851-1854), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near See also:Birmingham. In the See also:interval he had taken the degree of D.D. at Cambridge (1852). In r86o he received the honorary degree of See also:doctor of letters at the university of See also:Leiden.

In 1866 he See also:

left England to take up the professorship of classics and See also:logic in See also:Sydney University, which he held until See also:hit See also:death on the 26th of See also:February 1884. He was twice married. Dr Badham's classical attainments were recognized by the most famous See also:European critics, such as G. C. Cobet, See also:Ludwig See also:Preller, W. See also:Dindorf, F. W. See also:Schneidewin, J. A. F. See also:Meineke, A. See also:Ritschl and See also:Tischendorf.

Like many schoolmasters who are See also:

good scholars and even good teachers, he was not a professional success; and his hasty See also:temper and dislike of anything approaching disingenuousness may have stood in the way of his See also:advancement. But it is See also:strange that a scholar and textual critic of his See also:eminence and of European reputation should have made comparatively little See also:mark in his native See also:country. He published See also:editions of See also:Euripides, See also:Helena and Iphigenia in Tauris (1851), See also:Ion (1851) See also:Plato's Philebus (1855, 1878) See also:Laches and See also:Euthydemus (1865), See also:Phaedrus (1851), See also:Symposium (1866) and De Platonis Epistolis (1866). He also contributed to Mnemosyne (Cobet's See also:journal) and other classical See also:periodicals. His Adhortatio ad Discipulos Academiae Sydniensis (1869) contains a number of emendations of See also:Thucydides and other classical authors. He also published an See also:article on " The See also:Text of Shakespere " in Cambridge Essays (1856); See also:Criticism applied to Shakespere (1846); Thoughts on Classical and Commercial See also:Education (1864). A collected edition of his Speeches and Lectures delivered in See also:Australia (Sydney, 1890) contains a memoir by Thomas See also:Butler.

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