METCALFE

Frederick (5 son of More house Metcalfe of Gains borough). b. 1815; ed. at Shrews bury; scholar of St. John’s coll. Camb. 1834; B.A. 1838; incorporated at Jesus coll. Oxf. 28 Nov. 1844, fellow of Lincoln 1844 to death, bursar 1849, sub-rector 1851, Greek lecturer 1853; M.A. 1845, B.D. 1855; head master of Brighton college 1847–9; contested profe orship of Anglo-Saxon at Oxf. twice; P.C. of St. Michael’s, Oxford 1849 to death; author of The Oxonian in Norway 2 vols. 1856, 2 ed. 1857; The Oxonian in Thelemarken 2 vols. 1858; History of German literature 1858; The Oxonian in Iceland 1861; The English man and the Scand in avian 1880; translated W. A. Becker’s Charicles 1845 and his Gallus 1844; edited some cla ical school books. d. Christiania, Norway 24 Aug. 1885.