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HENRY JOHN ROBY (183x- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 424 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY JOHN ROBY (183x- )  ,
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English classical scholar and writer on
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Roman law, was born at
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Tamworth on the 12th of August 1830 . He was educated at St John's College, Cam-
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bridge (senior classic, 1853;
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fellow,' 1854) . From 1866 to 1868 he was professor of jurisprudence at University College,
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London, and from 1872 to 1874
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commissioner of endowed
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schools . From 1890 to 1895 he was member of parliament in the Liberal
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interest for the
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Eccles division of
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Lancashire . The
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book by which. he is , perhaps best known is his Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius, a storehouse of illustrative quotations from Latin literature, but his most important
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works
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deal with Roman law—Introduction to Justinian's
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Digest (1884), and Roman Private Law (1902) .

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