RICHARD

See also:

• RICHARD SHILLETO (18og-1876)

SHILLETO (18og-1876)  , English classical scholar, was born at Ulleskelf in Yorkshire on the 25th of November 1809 . He was educated at Repton and Shrewsbury schools, and Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 1867 was elected a fellow of Peter-house . His whole life was spent in Cambridge, where he died on the 24th of September 1876 . Shilleto was one of the greatest Greek scholars that England has produced; in addition, he had an intimate acquaintance with the Latin and English languages and literature . He published little, being obliged to devote the best years of his life to private tuition . He was the most famous classical " coach " of his day, and almost all the best men passed through his hands . His edition of the De falsa legatione of Demosthenes will always remain a standard work, but his first two books of Thucydides (an instalment of a long-contemplated edition) hardly came up to expectation . His pamphlet Thucydides or Grote ? excited a considerable amount of feeling . While it undoubtedly damaged Grote's reputation as a scholar, it was felt that it showed a want of appreciation of the special greatness of the historian . Shilleto's powers as a translator from English into Greek (especially prose) and Latin were unrivalled; a selection of his versions was published in 1901 . See B . H .

Kennedy in Cambridge Journal of Philology (1877) .