HENRY FYNES

See also:

• CLINTON
• CLINTON, DE WITT (1769-1828)
• CLINTON, GEORGE (1739-1812)
• HENRY FYNES CLINTON (1781-1852)
• CLINTON, SIR HENRY (c. 1738-1795)

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

J . F . Clinton in 1854 .