EDWIN

See also:

• GUEST (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Gast, and Swed. gust; cognate with Lat. hostis, originally a stranger, hence enemy; cf. " host " )
• EDWIN GUEST (1800–188o)

GUEST (1800–188o)  , English antiquary, was born in 'Soo . He was educated at King Edward's school, Birmingham, and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as eleventh wrangler, subsequently becoming a fellow of his college . Called to the bar in 1828, 11e devoted himself, after some years of legal practice, to antiquarian and literary research . In 1838 he published his exhaustive History of English Rhythms . He also wrote a very large number of papers on Roman-British history, which, together with a mass of fresh material for a history of early Britain, were published posthumously under the editorship of Dr Stubbs under the title Origines Celticae (1883) . In 1852 Guest was elected master of Caius College, becoming LL.D. in the following year, and in 1854–1855 he was vice-chancellor of Cambridge University . Guest was a fellow of the Royal Society, and an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries . He died on the 23rd of November 1880 .