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PALEY, FREDERICK APTHORP (1815-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 628 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PALEY, See also:FREDERICK APTHORP (1815-1888) , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Easingwold in See also:Yorkshire on the 14th of See also:January 1815. He was the See also:grandson of See also:William Paley, and was educated at See also:Shrewsbury school and St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge (B.A. 1838). His See also:conversion to See also:Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846, but he returned in 186o and resumed his See also:work as " See also:coach," until in 1874 he was appointed See also:professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman See also:Catholic University at See also:Kensington. This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe, where he died on the 8th of See also:December 1888. His most important See also:editions are: See also:Aeschylus, with Latin notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted See also:attention; Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879), See also:Euripides (2nd ed., 1872), See also:Hesiod (2nd ed., 1883), See also:Homer's Iliad (2nd ed., 1884), See also:Sophocles, See also:Philoctetes, See also:Electra, Trachiniae, See also:Ajax (188o)—all with English commentary and forming See also:part of the Bibliotheca classica; select private orations of See also:Demosthenes (3rd ed., 1896-1898); See also:Theocritus (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his See also:minor See also:works. He possessed considerable knowledge of See also:architecture, and published a See also:Manual of See also:Gothic Architecture (1846) and Manual of Gothic See also:Mouldings (6th ed., 1902).

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