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See also:GAISFORD, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1779-1855) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Iford, See also:Wiltshire, on the 22nd of See also:December 1779. Proceeding to See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford in 1797, he became successively student and See also:tutor of See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and was in 1811 appointed regius See also:professor of See also:Greek in the university. Taking orders, he held (1815–1847) the See also:college living of Westwell, in See also:Oxfordshire, and other ecclesiastical preferments simultaneously with his professor-See also:ship. From 1831 until his See also:death on the 2nd of See also:June 1855, he was See also:dean of Christ Church. As See also:curator of the Bodleian and See also:principal delegate of the University See also:Press he was instrumental in securing the co-operation of distinguished See also:European scholars as collators, notably See also:Bekker and See also:Dindorf. Among his numerous contributions to Greek literature may be mentioned, See also:Hephaestion's Encheiridion (1810); Poetae Graeci minores (1814–182o); See also:Stobaeus' Florilegium (1822); See also:Herodotus, with variorum notes (1824); Suidas' See also:Lexicon (1834); Etymologicon magnum (1848)4 See also:Eusebius's Praeparatio (1843) and Demonstratio. evangelica (1852). In 1856 the Gaisford prizes, for Greek See also:composition, were founded at Oxford to perpetuate his memory.
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