JOSEPH WILLIAMS BLAKESLEY (18o8–1885)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V04,
Page 39
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:JOSEPH See also:WILLIAMS See also:BLAKESLEY (18o8–1885)
, See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:London on the 6th of See also:March 18o8, and was educated at St See also:Paul's school, London, and at Corpus Christi and Trinity Colleges, See also:Cambridge
.
In 1831 he was elected a See also:fellow, and in 1839 a See also:tutor of Trinity
.
In 1833 he took See also:holy orders, and from 1845 to 1872 held the See also:college living of See also:Ware, See also:Hertfordshire
.
Over the See also:signature " Hertfordshire See also:Incumbent " he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and See also:political subjects of the See also:day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that See also:paper
.
In 1863 he was made a See also:canon of Canter-See also:bury, and in 1872 See also:dean of See also:Lincoln
.
Dean 13lakesley was the
author of the first English See also:Life of See also:Aristotle (1839), an edition of See also:Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in See also:Algeria (1859)
.
He died on the 18th of See also:April 1885
.
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