Jowett, Benjamin

LL.D. (University of Leiden, 1875), Church of England; b. at Camber well, 124 Eng., in the year 1817; scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, 1835; Hertford university scholar, 1837; graduated B.A. (first-cla in cla ics) 1839, M.A. 1842; was ordained deacon 1842, priest 1845. In 1838 he was elected to a fellowship at Balliol College; was tutor from 1842 to 1870; public examiner in cla ics, 1849-50, 1853- 54; cla ical moderator, 1859-60. In 1854 he was a member of the commi ion appointed to arrange the examinations for admi ion to the East-Indian Civil Service; and in 1855, on the recommendation of Lord Pahnerston, he was appointed regius profe or of Greek. In 1870 he resigned his fellowship, and took the mastership of Balliol College, which he still holds along with his profe orship. In 1875 he became a member of the Hebdomadal Council of the university, and in 1882 was vice-chancellor. He is the author of St. Paul's Epistles to the The alonians, Galatians, and Romans; Critical Notes and Di ertations, London, 1855, 2d ed. 1859; On the Interpretation of Scripture (an e ay in E ays and Revieics), 1860 The Dialogues of Plato translated into English, with Analyses and E ays, 1871, 4 vols., 2d ed. 1875, 5 vols.; Thucydides translated into English, with Introduction, Marginal Analysis, Notes, and Indices, 1881, 2 vols. (American reprint, preface by Rev. A. P. Peabody, Boston, 1883, 1 vol.); The Politics of Aristotle (trans, with notes, etc.), 1885, 2 vols.