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English classical scholar, clergyman and educator
William Walter Merry
William Walter Merry (1835–1918) was an
English classical scholar, clergyman, and educator.
[1]
Life
William Merry was born in
Evesham ,
Worcestershire , and was educated at
Cheltenham College and
Balliol College ,
Oxford , where he gained the Chancellor's Prize for a
Latin essay in 1858. He was fellow and lecturer of
Lincoln College, Oxford , from 1859 and
Rector (head) of the College from 1884.
[2] He was select
preacher to the University in 1878–79 and in 1889–90, and Whitehall preacher in 1883–84; public
orator at Oxford from 1880 to 1910; a member of the
Hebdomadal Council (1896–1908); and
Vice-Chancellor (1904–06).
Works
For many years he was engaged in the preparation of editions of the classical authors, published by the
Clarendon Press , Oxford.
[3] These included
Homer 's
Odyssey (books i to xii, with
James Riddell ; second edition, 1886); a school edition of the same books and another of books xiii to xxiv;
[4] and a series of editions of the plays of
Aristophanes , begun in 1879. (Some of these have gone through several editions). His other works in classical literature are The Greek Dialects (1875) and Selected Fragments of Roman Poetry (second edition, 1901).
References and notes
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922).
"Merry, William Walter" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 914.
^
Rectors ,
British History Online . In '
Lincoln College ', H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel (editors), A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford , pages 163–173, 1954.
^
Books by William Walter Merry ,
Alibris .
^ of the former 66,000 copies were sold, of the latter 16,000
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John Arthur Ruskin Munro , 1919–44
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