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NETTLESHIP, HENRY (1839-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 422 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NETTLESHIP, See also:HENRY (1839-1893) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Kettering on the 5th of May 1839. He was educated at Lancing, See also:Durham and See also:Charterhouse See also:schools, and Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford. In 1861 he was elected to a fellowship at See also:Lincoln, which he vacated on his See also:marriage in 187o. In 1868 he became an assistant See also:master at See also:Harrow, but in 1873 he returned to Oxford, and was elected to a fellowship at Corpus. In 1878 he was appointed to succeed See also:Edwin See also:Palmer in the professorship of Latin, which See also:post he held till his See also:death at Oxford on the loth of See also:July 1893. Nettleship had been from the first attracted to the study of See also:Virgil, and a See also:good See also:deal of his See also:time was devoted to his favourite poet. After See also:Conington's death in 1869, he saw his edition of Virgil through the See also:press, and revised and corrected subsequent See also:editions of the See also:work. In 1875 he hadundertaken to compile a new Latin See also:lexicon for the See also:Clarendon Press, but the work proved more than he could accomplish, and in 1887 he published some of the results of twelve years' labour in a See also:volume entitled Contributions to Latin Lexicography, a genuine piece of See also:original work. In See also:conjunction with J. E. See also:Sandys, Nettleship revised and edited Seyffert's See also:Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, and he contributed to a volume entitled Essays on the Endowment of See also:Research an See also:article on " The See also:Present Relations between Classical Research and Classical See also:Education in See also:England," in which he pointed out the See also:great value of the professorial lecture in See also:Germany. In his views on the research question he was a follower of See also:Mark See also:Pattison, whose essays he edited in 1889 for the Clarendon Press.

In Lectures and Essays on Subjects connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship, Nettleship revised and republished some of his previous publications. A second See also:

series of these, published in 1895, and edited by F. Haverfield, contains a memoir by Mrs M. Nettleship, with full bibliography. See obituary notices in The Times (11th of July, 1893) ; Classical See also:Review (See also:October, 1893); Oxford See also:Magazine (18th of October, 1893).

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