THOMAS

See also:

• THOMAS GAISFORD (1779-1855)

GAISFORD (1779-1855)  , English classical scholar, was born at Iford, Wiltshire, on the 22nd of December 1779 . Proceeding to Oxford in 1797, he became successively student and tutor of Christ Church, and was in 1811 appointed regius professor of Greek in the university . Taking orders, he held (1815–1847) the college living of Westwell, in Oxfordshire, and other ecclesiastical preferments simultaneously with his professor-ship . From 1831 until his death on the 2nd of June 1855, he was dean of Christ Church . As curator of the Bodleian and principal delegate of the University Press he was instrumental in securing the co-operation of distinguished European scholars as collators, notably Bekker and Dindorf . Among his numerous contributions to Greek literature may be mentioned, Hephaestion's Encheiridion (1810); Poetae Graeci minores (1814–182o); Stobaeus' Florilegium (1822); Herodotus, with variorum notes (1824); Suidas' Lexicon (1834); Etymologicon magnum (1848)4 Eusebius's Praeparatio (1843) and Demonstratio. evangelica (1852) . In 1856 the Gaisford prizes, for Greek composition, were founded at Oxford to perpetuate his memory .