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JAMES HENRY MONK (1784-1856)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 724 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES HENRY MONK (1784-1856)  ,
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English divine and classical scholar, was born at Buntingford, Herts . He was educated at
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Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1809 was elected professor of Greek in succession to Porson . The establishment of the classical tripos was in
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great measure due to his efforts . In 1822 he was appointed dean of Peter-borough; in 183o, bishop of Gloucester (with which the see of Bristol was amalgamated in 1836) . He is best known as the author of a
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Life of Bentley (183o) and as the editor (with C . J . , Blomfield) of Porson's Adversaria (1812) .

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