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