RICHARD

See also:

• RICHARD VALPY (1754-1836)

VALPY (1754-1836)  , English schoolmaster, was born in Jersey on the 7th of December 1754 . He was sent to schools in Normady and Southampton, and completed his education at Pembroke College, Oxford . In 1777 he took orders, and in 1781 became head master of Reading grammar school, a post which he held for fifty years . He was the author of Greek and Latin grammars which enjoyed a large circulation . He died in London on the 28th of March 1836 . His second son, ABRAHAM JOHN VALPY (1787-18i4), I1 printer and publisher, is remembered in connexion with two great undertakings in the department of classical literature . These were reissues of (r) Stephanus's Greek Thesaurus, for which E . H . Barker was chiefly responsible; (2) the Delphin Classics in 143 volumes with variorum notes, under the editorial superintendence of George Dyer . He also founded the Classical Journal in 1810 .