WILLIAM GUNION

See also:

• RUTHERFORD, MARK
• WILLIAM GUNION RUTHERFORD (1853–1907)

RUTHERFORD (1853–1907)  , English scholar, was born in Peeblesshire on the 17th of July 1853 . He was educated at St Andrews and Oxford, where he graduated in natural science, with a view to following the medical profession, which he abandoned in favour of a scholastic career . From 1883 to 1901 he was headmaster of Westminster school; and his death, on the 19th of July 1907, deprived classical scholarship in England of one of its most brilliant modern representatives . Rutherford devoted special attention to Attic idioms and the language of Aristophanes . ; His most important work, the New Phrynichus (1882), dealing with the Atticisms of the grammarian, was supplemented by his Babrius (1883), a specimen of the later Greek, which was the chief subject of C . A . Lobeck's earlier commentary (1820) on Phrynichus . His edition (1896–1905) of the Aristophanic scholia from the Ravenna MS. was less successful . Mention may also be made of his Elementary Greek Accidence and Lex Rex, a list of cognate words in Greek, Latin and English .