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RUTHERFORD, WILLIAM GUNION (1853–1907)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 940 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RUTHERFORD, See also:WILLIAM GUNION (1853–1907) , See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Peeblesshire on the 17th of See also:July 1853. He was educated at St See also:Andrews and See also:Oxford, where he graduated in natural See also:science, with a view to following the medical profession, which he abandoned in favour of a scholastic career. From 1883 to 1901 he was headmaster of See also:Westminster school; and his See also:death, on the 19th of July 1907, deprived classical scholarship in See also:England of one of its most brilliant See also:modern representatives. Rutherford devoted See also:special See also:attention to See also:Attic idioms and the See also:language of See also:Aristophanes. ; His most important See also:work, the New Phrynichus (1882), dealing with the Atticisms of the grammarian, was supplemented by his See also:Babrius (1883), a specimen of the later See also:Greek, which was the See also:chief subject of C. A. See also:Lobeck's earlier commentary (1820) on Phrynichus. His edition (1896–1905) of the Aristophanic scholia from the See also:Ravenna MS. was less successful. Mention may also be made of his Elementary Greek See also:Accidence and Lex Rex, a See also:list of cognate words in Greek, Latin and English.

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