JOHN BAGNELL

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• BURY
• JOHN BAGNELL BURY (1861- )

BURY (1861- )  , British historian, was born on the 16th of October 1861, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1885 . A fine Greek scholar, he edited Pindar's Nemean and Isthmian Odes; but he devoted himself chiefly to the study of history, and was chosen professor of modern history at Dublin in 1893, becoming regius professor of Greek in 1898 . He resigned both positions in 1902, when he was elected regius professor of modern history in the university of Cambridge . His historical work was mainly concerned with the later Roman empire, and his edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, with a masterly introduction and valuable notes (1896-1900), is the standard text of this history . He also wrote a History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (19o0); History of the Later Roman Empire,,395-800 (1889) History of the Roman Empire 27 B.C.-180 A.D . (1893); Life of St Patrick and his Place in History (1905), &c . He was elected a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Durham .