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Browne Medal
The Browne Medals (also known as the Sir William Browne's Medals) ''Cambridge University Reporter'', 7 November 2008 are gold medals which since 1774 have been awarded for annual undergraduate competitions in and Greek poetry at the . Sir William Browne, who had been president of the |
Latin Poetry
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature, are estimated to have been composed around 205–184 BC. History Scholars conventionally date the start of Latin literature to the first performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC. Livius translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, using meters that were basically those of Greek drama, modified to the needs of Latin. His successors Plautus ( 254 – 184 BC) and Terence ( 195/185 – 159? BC) further refined the borrowings from the Greek stage and the prosody of their verse is substantially the same as for classical Latin verse. Ennius (239 – 169 BC), virtually a contemporary of Livius, introduced the traditional meter of Greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into Latin literature; he substituted it for the jerky Saturnian meter in which Livius had been composing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Smart Hughes
Thomas Smart Hughes (1786–1847) was an English cleric, theologian and historian. Life Born at Nuneaton, Warwickshire, on 25 August 1786, he was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Hughes, curate of Nuneaton, and rector of Hardwick, Northamptonshire. He received his early education from John Spencer Cobbold, first at Nuneaton grammar school, and later as a private pupil at Wilby, Suffolk. In 1801 he was sent to Shrewsbury School, then under the head-mastership of Samuel Butler, and in October 1803 entered as a pensioner of St John's College, Cambridge. His university career was distinguished. Besides college prizes he gained the Browne medals for a Latin ode ''Mors Nelsoni'', in 1806, and for the Greek ode ''In Obitum Gulielmi Pitt'' in 1807. He graduated B.A. in 1809 as fourteenth senior optime, and proceeded M.A. in 1811 and B.D. in 1818. Hughes was appointed in 1809 to an assistant-mastership at Harrow, under George Butler, but returned to Cambridge in 1811. In the same ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ethelbert Page
Thomas Ethelbert Page, CH (27 March 1850 – 1 April 1936) was a British classicist and schoolmaster. Early life Thomas Ethelbert Page was born in Lincoln, England on 27 March 1850. He was the second son of William Tomlinson Page, the manager of the Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, and his wife Anne, whose maiden surname was Watson. He was baptised at St Peter at Arches Church, Lincoln, on 28 April 1850. During the time of the 1851 census, taken on 30 March, Thomas was living with his family at number 18, Salter Gate, Lincoln. He attended Lincoln Grammar School, Shrewsbury School, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he ranked second in Classics in 1873. Career After his graduation, Page worked as a sixth-form master at Charterhouse School until 1910. After his retirement, he was appointed as the first editor of the Loeb Classical Library. During his career, he was offered the headships of Harrow and Shrewsbury, as well as the Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet PC, FBA (10 December 1845 – 18 January 1937) was an English jurist best known for his ''History of English Law before the Time of Edward I'', written with F.W. Maitland, and his lifelong correspondence with US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. Life Pollock was the eldest son of William Frederick Pollock, Master of the Court of Exchequer, and Juliet Creed, daughter of the Rev, Harry Creed. He was the grandson of Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the great-nephew of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, and the first cousin of Ernest Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth, Master of the Rolls. He was educated at Eton College, where he was a King's Scholar, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was elected Fellow in 1868 (later Honorable Fellow in 1920).''For My Grandson'' (1933) John Murray, Note B: ''Personal Dates'' In 1871 he was adm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Montagu Butler
Henry Montagu Butler (2 July 1833 – 14 January 1918) was an English academic and clergyman, who served as headmaster of Harrow School (1860–85), Dean of Gloucester (1885–86) and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1886–1918). Early life Butler was the fourth son of George Butler, Headmaster of Harrow School and later Dean of Peterborough, and his wife Sarah Maria . He was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, matriculating in 1851. At Cambridge he won the Browne Medal in 1853 and 1854, the Camden Medal, and the Porson Prize in 1854, and was President of the Cambridge Union for Michaelmas term 1855. He graduated B.A. as senior classic in 1855, M.A. 1858, D.D. 1865. Made a Fellow of Trinity in 1855, Butler was a tutor there 1855–1859. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1859. Career Butler succeeded Charles Vaughan (priest) as headmaster of Harrow School from 1860 to 1885, following in his father's footsteps. In this capacity he influenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brooke Foss Westcott
Brooke Foss Westcott (12 January 1825 – 27 July 1901) was an English bishop, biblical scholar and theologian, serving as Bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death. He is perhaps most known for co-editing ''The New Testament in the Original Greek'' in 1881. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the British Empire. Early life and education He was born in Birmingham. His father, Frederick Brooke Westcott, was a botanist. Westcott was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, King Edward VI School, Birmingham, under James Prince Lee, where he became friends with Joseph Barber Lightfoot, later Bishop of Durham. The period of Westcott's childhood was one of political ferment in Birmingham and amongst his earliest recollections was one of Thomas Attwood (economist), Thomas Attwood leading a large procession of men to a meeting of the Birmingham Political Union in 1831. A few years after this Chartism led to serious disturbances in Birmingham and many years later Westcott w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William George Clark
William George Clark (18 March 18216 November 1878) was an English writer and classical scholar. He was best known for founding the ''Journal of Philology'' and '' The Cambridge Shakespeare'' alongside writer William Aldis Wright. Life He was born at Barford Hall, Darlington. He was educated at Sedbergh School, Shrewsbury School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in classics and won a Browne medal and was subsequently elected Fellow. In 1857 he was appointed Public Orator. He travelled much during the long vacations, visiting Spain, Greece, Italy and Poland. In 1853 Clark had taken orders, but left the Church after the passing of the Clerical Disabilities Act 1870 ( 33 & 34 Vict. c. 91), of which he was one of the promoters. He also resigned the public oratorship in the same year, and in consequence of illness left Cambridge in 1873. He died at York on 6 November 1878. He bequeathed a sum of money to his old college for the foundation of a lectureship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book '' Ancient Law'' that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status dealing with(in) a particular group while in the modern one, in which individuals are viewed as autonomous agents, they are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Because of this thesis, Maine can be seen as one of the forefathers of modern legal anthropology, legal history and sociology of law. Early life Maine was the son of Dr. James Maine, of Kelso, Roxburghshire. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, where a boarding house was named after him in 1902, being the 7th block on the avenue, and 3rd on the East Side. From there he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1840. At Cambridge, he was noted as a classic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton
Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. Bolton, was a British Classics, classicist, elected member of the UK's Metaphysical Society, an scientist, amateur scientist and an Invention, inventor, best known for his invention of the aileron, a primary Aeronautics, aeronautical Aircraft flight control system#Primary controls, flight control device. He patented the aileron in 1868, some 36 years before it was first employed in manned flight by Robert Esnault-Pelterie in 1904. Boulton was the son of Matthew Robinson Boulton, and as well the grandson of Matthew Boulton, who founded the Soho Manufactory and the Soho Mint. His grandfather also co-founded the Soho Foundry with James Watt, which employed steam engines of the latter's design. Born into a family of significant wealth and mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Freeman
Philip Freeman (1818–1875) was a Church of England cleric and Archdeacon of Exeter. Life Freeman, son of Edmund Freeman, of the Cedars, Combs, Suffolk, and Margaret, daughter of William Hughes of Wexford, Ireland, was born at the Cedars, Combs, Suffolk on 3 February 1818. He was educated at Dedham Grammar School under Dr George Taylor. In October 1835, he became a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1837 and 1838 was awarded Sir William Browne's medals for a Latin ode and epigrams. He was elected Craven University scholar in 1838, graduated B.A. in 1839, and after being chosen fellow and tutor of Peterhouse, in 1842 took his M.A. degree. He was principal of the Chichester Theological College from 1846 to 1848, and was a canon and a reader in theology in Cumbrae College (the college built by the Earl of Glasgow in the island of Great Cumbrae, Buteshire) from 1853 to 1858, at the same time having charge of the episcopal church in that island. He was presented by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Drury (priest)
Henry Drury (11 May 1812 – 25 January 1863) was an English churchman. He became Archdeacon of Wilts, England and Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. Life Drury was the eldest son of Henry Joseph Thomas Drury (1778–1841) and his wife Ann(e) Caroline Tayler, daughter of Archdale Wilson Tayler of Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire. He was born at Harrow, London, in 1812. After passing through Harrow School with distinction he was admitted minor pensioner of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, 14 June 1831, and began residence in the following October. In 1833 he won the Browne medal for the Latin ode, and in 1835 that for the epigrams. An eye complaint prevented further academic successes as an undergraduate. In 1837 he took the ordinary B.A. degree, proceeding M.A. in 1840. In 1838 he became classical lecturer at Caius, but, having been ordained, he left Cambridge in 1839 to take sole charge of Alderley, Gloucestershire, a curacy which he exchanged the following yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hildyard
James Hildyard (11 April 1809 – 27 August 1887) was an English classical scholar. Life and career James Hildyard was born in Winestead on 11 April 1809, the eighth son of the Rev. William Hildyard and his wife Catherine Grant. He educated under Dr. Samuel Butler at Shrewsbury from 1820 to 1829. From 1826 he was the head of the school, and in April 1829 was the chief person in a rebellion known as the 'Beef Row.' In October of the same year he was entered as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, where, through the influence of Dr. John Kaye, he was at once elected to a Tancred divinity studentship, then worth about £113 a year. In January 1833 he graduated as a senior optime in mathematics, second in the first class of the classical tripos, and chancellor's medallist, and was immediately elected fellow of his college. In due course he became classical lecturer and tutor. He proceeded B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836, and B.D. 1846. In 1843 he was senior proctor. During fourteen yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
