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See also:LONG, See also:GEORGE (1800-1879) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Poulton, See also:Lancashire, on the 4th of See also:November 1800, and educated at See also:Macclesfield See also:grammar-school and Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. He was See also:Craven university scholar in 1821 (bracketed with See also:Lord See also:Macaulay and See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Malden), wrangler and See also:senior See also:chancellor's medallist in 1822 and became a See also:fellow of Trinity in 1823. In 1824 he was elected See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:languages in the new university of See also:Virginia at See also:Charlottesville, U.S.A., but after four years returned to See also:England as the first See also:Greek professor at the newly founded university of See also:London. In 1842 he succeeded T. H. See also:Key as professor of Latin at University College; in 1846–1849 he was reader in See also:jurisprudence and See also:civil See also:law in the See also:Middle See also:Temple, and finally (1849–187r) classical lecturer at See also:Brighton College. Subsequently he lived in retirement at Portfield, See also:Chichester, in See also:receipt (from 1873) of a Civil See also:List See also:pension of £See also:loo a See also:year obtained for him by See also:Gladstone. He was one of the founders (1830), and for twenty years an officer, of the Royal See also:Geographical Society; an active member of the Society for the See also:Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he edited the quarterly See also:Journal of See also:Education (1831-1835) as well as many of its See also:text-books; the editor (at first with See also:Charles See also:Knight, afterwards alone) of the See also:Penny Cyclopaedia and of Knight's See also:Political See also:Dictionary; and a member of the Society for Central Education instituted in London in 1837. He contributed the See also:Roman law articles to See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, and wrote also for the See also:companion dictionaries of See also:Biography and See also:Geography. He is remembered, however, mainly as the editor of the Bibliotheca Classica See also:series—the first serious See also:attempt to produce scholarly See also:editions of classical texts
with English commentaries—to which he contributed the edition of See also:Cicero's Orations 0851–1862). He died on the loth of See also:August 1879.
Among his other See also:works are: See also:Summary of See also:Herodotus (1829); editions of Herodotus (183o–1833) and See also:Xenophon's See also:Anabasis (1831) ; revised editions of J. A. Macleane's See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius (1867) and See also:Horace (1869); the Civil See also:Wars of See also:Rome; a See also:translation with notes of thirteen of See also:Plutarch's Lives (1844–1848) ; See also:translations of the Thoughts of See also:Marcus Aurelius (1862) and the Discourses of See also:Epictetus (1877); Decline of the Roman See also:Republic (1864–1874), 5 vols. See H. J. See also:Matthews, " In Memoriam," reprinted from the Brighton College See also:Magazine, 1879.
End of Article: LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
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