ELMSLEY

Peter, D.D., English scholar, born in 1773, died in 1825. Educated at Oxford, he was one of the original contributors to the Hdinburgh Review, and wrote occasionally, at a subsequent period, in the Quarterly. He finally settled at Oxford, on obtaining the headship of St. Alban’s Hall and the Camden profe orship of ancient history in 1823. He published editions of the Gdipus Tyrannus (1811), Heraclide (1815), Medea (1818), ae (1821), and Gidipus Colone us (1 y3 137 EL OBEID EL OBEID. See OBEID.