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See also: English classical See also: scholar, was See also: born in or near Market See also: Bosworth
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He was educated at the See also: town grammar school under Anthony Blackwall, and at See also: Emmanuel See also: College, Cambridge, of which society he was elected See also: fellow in 1731
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His See also: peculiar habits and outspoken language made him unpopular
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His See also: health broke down in consequence of his sedentary See also: life, and it is said that he took to See also: bell-ringing at See also: Great St Mary's as a restorative
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He was a bitter enemy of Bentley, who he declared knew nothing of See also: Greek except from indexes
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In 1738 Dawes was appointed to the mastership of the grammar school, Newcastleon-See also: Tyne, combined with that of St Mary's hospital
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From all accounts his mind appears to have become unhinged; his eccentricities of conduct and continual disputes with his governing See also: body ruined the school, and finally, in 1749, he resigned his See also: post and retired to Heworth, where he chiefly amused himself with boating
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He died on the 21st of See also: March 1766
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Dawes was not a prolific writer
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The
See also: book on which his fame rests is his Miscellanea critica (1745), which gained the See also: commendation of such distinguished See also: continental scholars as L
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C
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Valckenaer and J
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J . See also: Reiske
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The Miscellanea, which was re-edited by T
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See also: Burgess (1781), G
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C
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Harles (1800) and T
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Kidd (1817), for many years enjoyed a high reputation, and although some of the " canons " have been proved untenable and few can be accepted universally, it will always remain an honourable and enduring monument of English scholarship
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See J
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See also: Hodgson, An Account of the Life and Writings of See also: Richard Dawes (1828) ; H
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R
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Luard in See also: Diet. of Nat
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Biog
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