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HENRY FYNES CLINTON (1781-1852)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 529 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY FYNES See also:CLINTON (1781-1852)  , See also:British classical See also:scholar and chronologist, was See also:born at Gamston in See also:Nottingham-See also:shire on the 14th of See also:January 1781 . He was descended from See also:Henry, second See also:earl of See also:Lincoln; for some generations his See also:family See also:bore the name of Fynes, but his See also:father resumed the older family name of See also:Clinton in 1821 . He was educated at See also:Westminster school and See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he studied classical literature and See also:history . From 18o6 to 1826 he was M.P. for See also:Aldborough . He died at Welwyn, Herts, where he had See also:purchased the See also:residence, and See also:estate of the poet See also:Young, on the 24th of See also:October 1852 . His See also:reading was extraordinarily methodical (see his See also:Literary Remains) . The value of his See also:Fasti, which set classical See also:chronology. on a scientific basis, can scarcely be over-estimated, even though subsequent See also:research has corrected some of his conclusions . His See also:chief See also:works are : Fasti Hellenici, the See also:Civil and Literary Chronology of See also:Greece from the S5th to the 124th See also:Olympiad (1824-1851), including See also:dissertations on points of See also:Greek history and Scriptural chronology; and Fasti Romani, the Civil and Literary Chronology of See also:Rome and See also:Constantinople from the See also:Death of See also:Augustus to the Death of See also:Heraclius (1845-1850) . In 1831 and 1853 respectively he published epitomes of the above . The Literary Remains of H . F . Clinton (the first See also:part of which contains an autobiography written in 1818) were edited by C .

J . F . Clinton in 1854 .

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