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HENRY NETTLESHIP (1839-1893)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 422 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:NETTLESHIP (1839-1893)  , See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at Kettering on the 5th of May 1839 . He was educated at Lancing, See also:Durham and See also:Charterhouse See also:schools, and Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Oxford . In 1861 he was elected to a fellowship at See also:Lincoln, which he vacated on his See also:marriage in 187o . In 1868 he became an assistant See also:master at See also:Harrow, but in 1873 he returned to Oxford, and was elected to a fellowship at Corpus . In 1878 he was appointed to succeed See also:Edwin See also:Palmer in the professorship of Latin, which See also:post he held till his See also:death at Oxford on the loth of See also:July 1893 . See also:Nettleship had been from the first attracted to the study of See also:Virgil, and a See also:good See also:deal of his See also:time was devoted to his favourite poet . After See also:Conington's death in 1869, he saw his edition of Virgil through the See also:press, and revised and corrected subsequent See also:editions of the See also:work . In 1875 he hadundertaken to compile a new Latin See also:lexicon for the See also: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 See also:volume entitled Contributions to Latin Lexicography, a genuine piece of See also:original work . In See also:conjunction with J . E . See also:Sandys, Nettleship revised and edited Seyffert's See also:Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, and he contributed to a volume entitled Essays on the Endowment of See also:Research an See also:article on " The See also:Present Relations between Classical Research and Classical See also:Education in See also:England," in which he pointed out the See also:great value of the professorial lecture in See also:Germany . In his views on the research question he was a follower of See also:Mark See also: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 See also:

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 See also:Review (See also:October, 1893); Oxford See also:Magazine (18th of October, 1893) .

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