Elias Palairet (1713–1765) was a Dutch minister and classical scholar, who spent his later life in England.

Life

Born in Rotterdam, Palairet was from a Huguenot background. After studying at Leyden he took Protestant holy orders, and became successively preacher at Aardenburg (1741), Doornik (1749), and

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. On coming to England Palairet acted as pastor of the French church at Greenwich, and of St. John's Church, Spitalfields, and latterly preacher in the Dutch chapel at St. James's, Westminster. His abilities attracted the notice of Bishop John Egerton, who made him his chaplain. Palairet died in Marylebone on 2 January 1765; he left all his property to his wife Margaret.

Works

Palairet wrote: * ''Histoire du Patriarche Joseph mise en vers héroïques'', Leyden, 1738. * ''Observationes philologico-criticæ in sacros Novi Fœderis libros, quorum plurima loca ex autoribus potissimum Græcis exponuntur'', Leyden, 1752; his explanations were called in question in the ''Acta eruditorum Lipsiensium'' for 1757, pp. 451–8, and by Karl Ludwig Bauer in the first volume of ''Stricturarum Periculum''. * ''Proeve van een oordeelkundig Woordenboek over de heiligeboeken des Nieuwen Verbonds'', Leyden, 1754. * ''Specimen exercitationum philologico-criticarum in sacros Novi Fœderis libros'', London, 1755 (another edit. 1760); intended as a prospectus of a revised edition of his ''Observationes''. * ''Thesaurus Ellipsium Latinarum, sive vocum quæ in sermone Latino suppressæ indicantur'', London, 1760 (new edition by

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, 1829). In the preface Palairet promised a revised edition of

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's ''Ellipses Græcæ'', but he did not complete it. In 1756 Palairet corrected for William Bowyer the ''Ajax'' and ''Electra'' of Sophocles, published in 1758. His annotations on the treatises of Xenophon the Ephesian were printed in Petrus Hofman Peerlkamp's edition (Haarlem, 1818).

Notes

Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Palairet, Elias 1713 births 1765 deaths 18th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers Dutch classical scholars Clergy from Rotterdam