Joseph Blakesley
The Very Rev. Joseph Williams Blakesley (6 March 1808 – 18 April 1885) was an English clergyman.
Life
Blakesley was born in London and was educated at St Paul's School, London, and at Corpus Christi and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] At university he became a member of the "Apostles Club", along with Alfred Tennyson and other literary names. In 1831 he was elected a fellow, and in 1839 a tutor of Trinity. In 1833 he took holy orders and from 1845 to 1872 held the college living of Ware, Hertfordshire. Over the signature "Hertfordshire Incumbent" he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and political subjects of the day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that paper.[2]
In 1863 he was made a canon of Canterbury Cathedral and in 1872 Dean of Lincoln. Blakesley was the author of the first English Life of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria (1859).[2]
References
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- Attribution
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External links
- Works by or about Joseph Blakesley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference
- 1808 births
- 1885 deaths
- People educated at St Paul's School, London
- Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Canons of Canterbury
- Deans of Lincoln
- English classical scholars
- English male writers
