Ernest Stewart Roberts (11 April 1847 – 16 June 1912) was born in

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; a classicist and academic administrator. He served as

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and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1906-1908).College papers of Ernest Stewart Roberts
''janus'' He was admitted to Caius in 1865, elected

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in 1870 then Senior Tutor. He was elected President in 1894 and Master in 1903. He was involved in the foundation of the College magazine, ''The Caian'' and the College Mission at Battersea and in the organisation of the College rifle corps and boat club. He was also ordained

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in 1877 and priest in 1879; Roberts was a college lecturer in classics, a Cambridge University lecturer in comparative philology and one of the significant influences on the study of epigraphy. He is described in a memoir as being uninterested in "passing political problems... The clash of parties was distasteful to his temperament... He became more conservative and more reserved about political subjects as he grew older, and some of his earlier opinions were changed". He died in

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and was buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Publications

The following books were written or edited by Ernest Stewart Roberts.Online Books by E. S. Roberts
''upenn.edu''

Author

*E.S. Roberts and

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, 1887. ''An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, Vol. 1: The archaic inscriptions and the Greek alphabet.''

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*E.S. Roberts and Ernest Arthur Gardner, 1905. ''An Introduction to Greek Epigraphy, Vol. 2: The inscriptions of Attica.'' Cambridge University Press

Editor

John Caius John Caius (born John Kays ; 6 October 1510 – 29 July 1573), also known as Johannes Caius and Ioannes Caius, was an English physician, and second founder of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Scholar and physician to Edward VI and Mary I ...

, ''The Sweating Sickness A boke or counseill against the disease commonly called the sweate or sweatyng sicknesse'' *John Caius, ''De Pronunciatione Graecae & Latinae Linguae (in Latin)'' *John Caius, ''De Rariorum Animalium atque Stirpium Historia (in Latin)''

References

1847 births 1912 deaths Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge English classical scholars Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge People educated at Boston Grammar School 19th-century English Anglican priests Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge People from Swineshead, Lincolnshire {{Academic-bio-stub