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See also:LEMPRIERE, See also:JOHN (c. 1765—1824) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Jersey, and educated at See also:Winchester and See also:Pembroke See also:College, 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. He is chiefly known for his Bibliotheca Classica or Classical See also:Dictionary (1788), which, edited by various later scholars, See also:long remained a readable if not very trustworthy reference See also:book in See also:mythology and classical See also:history. In 1792, after holding other scholastic posts, he was appointed to the See also:head-mastership of See also:Abingdon See also:grammar school, and later became the See also:vicar of that See also:parish. While occupying this living, he published a Universal See also:Biography of Eminent Persons in all Ages and Countries (18o8). In 1809 he succeeded to the head-mastership of See also:Exeter See also:free grammar school. On retiring from this, in consequence of a disagreement with the trustees, he was given the living of Meetll in See also:Devonshire, which, together with that of See also:Newton Petrock, he held till his See also:death in See also:London on the 1st of See also:February 1824.
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