HENRY

See also:

• HENRY NETTLESHIP (1839-1893)
• NETTLESHIP, RICHARD LEWIS (1846-1892)

NETTLESHIP (1839-1893)  , English classical scholar, was born at Kettering on the 5th of May 1839 . He was educated at Lancing, Durham and Charterhouse schools, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford . In 1861 he was elected to a fellowship at Lincoln, which he vacated on his marriage in 187o . In 1868 he became an assistant master at Harrow, but in 1873 he returned to Oxford, and was elected to a fellowship at Corpus . In 1878 he was appointed to succeed Edwin Palmer in the professorship of Latin, which post he held till his death at Oxford on the loth of July 1893 . Nettleship had been from the first attracted to the study of Virgil, and a good deal of his time was devoted to his favourite poet . After Conington's death in 1869, he saw his edition of Virgil through the press, and revised and corrected subsequent editions of the work . In 1875 he hadundertaken to compile a new Latin lexicon for the Clarendon Press, but the work proved more than he could accomplish, and in 1887 he published some of the results of twelve years' labour in a volume entitled Contributions to Latin Lexicography, a genuine piece of original work . In conjunction with J . E . Sandys, Nettleship revised and edited Seyffert's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, and he contributed to a volume entitled Essays on the Endowment of Research an article on " The Present Relations between Classical Research and Classical Education in England," in which he pointed out the great value of the professorial lecture in Germany . In his views on the research question he was a follower of Mark Pattison, whose essays he edited in 1889 for the Clarendon Press .

In Lectures and Essays on Subjects connected with Latin Literature and Scholarship, Nettleship revised and republished some of his previous publications . A second

series of these, published in 1895, and edited by F . Haverfield, contains a memoir by Mrs M . Nettleship, with full bibliography . See obituary notices in The Times (11th of July, 1893) ; Classical Review (October, 1893); Oxford Magazine (18th of October, 1893) .