See also:DAVID BINNING See also:MONRO (1836-1905)
, See also:English Homeric See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:Edinburgh on the 16th of See also:November 1836
.
He was a See also:grandson of See also:Alexander See also:Monro, tertius (1773-z859), See also:professor of See also:anatomy in Edinburgh University, whose See also:father, Alexander Monro, See also:secundus (1733-1817), and grandfather, Alexander Monro, See also:primus (1697-1767), both filled the same position
..
He was educated at See also:Glasgow University, and Brasenose and Balliol Colleges, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
In 1859 he was elected See also:fellow, and in 1882 See also:provost of See also:Oriel, which See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office he held till his See also:death at Heiden, See also:Switzerland, on the 22nd of See also:August 1905
.
He was a See also:man of varied attainments, an excellent linguist, and possessed considerable knowledge of See also:music, See also:painting ' and See also:architecture
.
His favourite study was See also:Homer, and his See also:Grammar of the Homeric See also:Dialect (2nd ed., 1891) established his reputation as an authority on that author
.
He also edited the last twelve books of the Odyssey, with valuable appendices on the See also:composition of the poem, its relation to the Iliad and the cyclic poets, the See also:history of the See also:text, the dialects, and the Homeric See also:house; a See also:critical text of the poems and fragments (Homeri See also:opera et reliquiae, 1896); Homeri opera (1902, with T
.
W
.
See also:- ALLEN, BOG OF
- ALLEN, ETHAN (1739–1789)
- ALLEN, GRANT CHARLES GRANT BLAIRFINDIEI, (1848–1899)
- ALLEN, JAMES LANE (1850– )
- ALLEN, JOHN (1476–1534)
- ALLEN, or ALLEYN, THOMAS (1542-1632)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM (1532-1594)
- ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS (183o-1889)
Allen, in Scriptorum classicorum bibliotheca oxoniensis); and an edition of the Iliad with notes for See also:schools
.
His See also:article on Homer, written for the 9th edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, was revised by him for this See also:work before he died
.
Mention may also be made of his Modes of See also:Ancient See also:Greek Music (1894), on which see Classical See also:Review for See also:December 1894, with author's reply in the same for See also:February 1895
.
See Memoir by J
.
See also:Cook See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson (Oxford, 1907)
.
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