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See also:GEORGE See also:DUNBAR (1774—1851) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and lexicographer, was See also:born at Coldingham in See also:Berwickshire . In See also:early See also:life he followed the humble profession of gardening, but, having been permanently injured by an See also:accident, devoted himself to the study of the See also:classics . When about See also:thirty years of See also:age, he settled in See also:Edinburgh, where he obtained a tutorship in the See also:family of See also:Lord See also:Provost Fettes . In 1807 he succeeded See also:Andrew Dalzel as See also:professor of See also:Greek in the university . See also:Dunbar held his See also:appointment till his See also:death on the 6th of See also:December 1851 . Although a See also:man of See also:great See also:energy and See also:industry, Dunbar did not produce anything of permanent value . He deserves mention, however, for his Greek-English and English-Greek See also:lexicon (184o), on the compilation of which he spent eight years . Although now superseded, it was the best See also:work of its See also:kind that had appeared in See also:England . The little that is known of Dunbar's life will be found in the Caledonian See also:Mercury (8th of December 1851) . |
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