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DAWES, RICHARD (1708-1766)

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DAWES, See also:RICHARD (1708-1766) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in or near See also:Market See also:Bosworth. He was educated at the See also:town See also:grammar school under See also:Anthony Blackwall, and at See also:Emmanuel See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which society he was elected See also:fellow in 1731. His See also:peculiar habits and outspoken See also:language made him unpopular. His See also:health See also:broke down in consequence of his sedentary See also:life, and it is said that he took to See also:bell-ringing at See also:Great St See also:Mary's as a restorative. He was a See also:bitter enemy of See also:Bentley, who he declared knew nothing of See also:Greek except from indexes. In 1738 Dawes was appointed to the mastership of the grammar school, Newcastleon-See also:Tyne, combined with that of St Mary's See also:hospital. From all accounts his mind appears to have become unhinged; his eccentricities of conduct and continual disputes with his governing See also:body ruined the school, and finally, in 1749, he resigned his See also:post and retired to Heworth, where he chiefly amused himself with boating. He died on the 21st of See also:March 1766. Dawes was not a prolific writer. The See also:book on which his fame rests is his Miscellanea critica (1745), which gained the See also:commendation of such distinguished See also:continental scholars as L. C. Valckenaer and J.

J. See also:

Reiske. The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by T. See also:Burgess (1781), G. C. Harles (1800) and T. See also:Kidd (1817), for many years enjoyed a high reputation, and although some of the " canons " have been proved untenable and few can be accepted universally, it will always remain an See also:honourable and enduring See also:monument of English scholarship. See J. See also:Hodgson, An See also:Account of the Life and Writings of Richard Dawes (1828) ; H. R. Luard in See also:Diet. of Nat. Biog.

; J. E. See also:

Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholarship, ii. 415.

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