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BLAKESLEY, JOSEPH WILLIAMS (18o8–1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 39 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BLAKESLEY, See also:JOSEPH See also:WILLIAMS (18o8–1885) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:March 18o8, and was educated at St See also:Paul's school, London, and at Corpus Christi and Trinity Colleges, See also:Cambridge. In 1831 he was elected a See also:fellow, and in 1839 a See also:tutor of Trinity. In 1833 he took See also:holy orders, and from 1845 to 1872 held the See also:college living of See also:Ware, See also:Hertfordshire. Over the See also:signature " Hertfordshire See also:Incumbent " he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and See also:political subjects of the See also:day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that See also:paper. In 1863 he was made a See also:canon of Canter-See also:bury, and in 1872 See also:dean of See also:Lincoln. Dean 13lakesley was the author of the first English See also:Life of See also:Aristotle (1839), an edition of See also:Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in See also:Algeria (1859). He died on the 18th of See also:April 1885.

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