Jowett, Benjamin

Master of Balliol College, Oxford, born at Camber well; was a fellow and tutor of his college till his election to the mastership in 1870; his name will always be a ociated with Balliol College, where his influence was felt, and made the deepest impre ion; he wrote an article "On the Interpretation of Scripture" in the "E ays and Reviews," and a commentary on certain epistles of St. Paul, but he achieved his greatest literary succe es by his translations of Plato's "Dialogues," the "History" of Thucydides, and the "Politics" of Aristotle (1817-1893).