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JOHN PEILE (1838-1910)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN PEILE (1838-1910)  ,
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English philologist, was born at
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Whitehaven on the 24th of
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April 1838 . He was educated at
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Repton and Christ's College, Cambridge . After a distinguished career (Craven scholar, senior classic and chancellor's medallist), he became
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fellow and tutor of his college, reader of
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comparative
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philology in the university (1884-1891), and in 1887 was elected master of Christ's . He took a
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great
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interest in the higher
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education of
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women and became president of Newnham College . He was the first to introduce the great philological
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works of George Curtius and Wilhelm Corssen to the English student in his Introduction to Greek and Latin Etymology (1869) . He died at Cambridge on the 9th of
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October 1910, leaving practically completed his exhaustive
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history of Christ's College .

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