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THOMPSON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886)

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THOMPSON, See also:WILLIAM HEPWORTH (18ro–1886) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and See also:master of Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, was See also:born at See also:York on the 27th of See also:March 181o. He was privately educated before entering the university. In 1834 he became a See also:fellow of Trinity, in 1853 See also:professor of See also:Greek (to which a canonry in See also:Ely See also:Cathedral was then for the first See also:time attached), and in 1866 master of his college. With the exception of the See also:year 1836, when he acted as headmaster of a newly established school in See also:Leicester, his See also:life was divided between Cambridge and Ely. He died at the master's :See also:lodge on the 1st of See also:October 1886. Thompson proved a worthy successor to See also:Whewell; the twenty years of his mastership were years of progress, and he himself took an active See also:part in the abolition of tests and the reform of university studies and of the college statutes. As a scholar he devoted his See also:attention almost entirely to See also:Plato; and his See also:Phaedrus (1868) and See also:Gorgias (1871), with especially valuable introductions, still remain the See also:standard English See also:editions of these two dialogues. He also edited (1856) from the author's See also:MSS. Lectures on the See also:History of See also:Ancient See also:Philosophy by William See also:Archer See also:Butler (1814–1848; lecturer on moral philosophy at Trinity College, See also:Dublin), the value of which was greatly enhanced by Thompson's notes. See See also:article by J. W. See also:Clark in See also:Diet.

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Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship (1908), vol. iii.

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