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See also: English See also: scholar, was See also: born at See also: Ludlow, in See also: Shropshire, on the 18th of See also: July 1813
.
His See also: father, See also: Charles
See also: Badham, translator of Juvenal.and an excellent classical scholar, was regius professor of physic at See also: Glasgow; his See also: mother was a See also: cousin of See also: Thomas
See also: Campbell, the poet
.
When about seven
years old, Badham was sent to
See also: Switzerland, where he became a pupil of See also: Pestalozzi
.
He was afterwards transferred to See also: Eton, and in 183o was elected to a scholarship at Wadham See also: College, See also: Oxford, but only obtained a third class in See also: classics (1836), a failure which may have been due to his dislike of the methods of study then in fashion at Oxford, at a See also: time when classical scholar-See also: ship was in a very unsatisfactory condition
.
Shortly after taking his degree in 1837 Badham went to See also: Italy, where he occupied himself in the study of See also: ancient See also: MSS., in particular those of the Vatican library
.
It was here that he began a See also: life-long friendship with G
.
C
.
See also: Cobet
.
He afterwards spent some time in See also: Germany, and on his return to See also: England was incorporated M.A. at See also: Peter-See also: house, Cambridge, in 1847
.
Having taken See also: holy orders, he was appointed headmaster of See also: Louth grammar school, See also: Lincolnshire (1851-1854), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near See also: Birmingham
.
In the See also: interval he had taken the degree of D.D. at Cambridge (1852)
.
In r86o he received the honorary degree of See also: doctor of letters at the university of See also: Leiden
.
In 1866 he See also: left England to take up the professorship of classics and logic in See also: Sydney University, which he held until See also: hit See also: death on the 26th of See also: February 1884
.
He was twice married
.
Dr Badham's classical attainments were recognized by the most famous See also: European critics, such as G
.
C
.
Cobet, Ludwig Preller, W
.
See also: Dindorf, F
.
W
.
Schneidewin, J
.
A
.
F
.
Meineke, A
.
Ritschl and Tischendorf
.
Like many schoolmasters who are See also: good scholars and even good teachers, he was not a professional success; and his hasty temper and dislike of anything approaching disingenuousness may have stood in the way of his See also: advancement
.
But it is See also: strange that a scholar and textual critic of his See also: eminence and of European reputation should have made comparatively little mark in his native country
.
He published See also: editions of See also: Euripides, See also: Helena and Iphigenia in Tauris (1851), See also: Ion (1851) See also: Plato's Philebus (1855, 1878) See also: Laches and See also: Euthydemus (1865), See also: Phaedrus (1851), Symposium (1866) and De Platonis Epistolis (1866)
.
He also contributed to Mnemosyne (Cobet's journal) and other classical See also: periodicals
.
His Adhortatio ad Discipulos Academiae Sydniensis (1869) contains a number of emendations of See also: Thucydides and other classical authors
.
He also published an article on " The Text of Shakespere " in Cambridge Essays (1856); See also: Criticism applied to Shakespere (1846); Thoughts on Classical and Commercial See also: Education (1864)
.
A collected edition of his Speeches and Lectures delivered in See also: Australia (Sydney, 1890) contains a memoir by Thomas See also: Butler
.
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