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LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 974 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879) , English classical scholar, was born at Poulton, Lancashire, on the 4th of November 1800, and educated at
Macclesfield
  grammar-school and Trinity College,
Cambridge
 . He was Craven university scholar in 1821 (bracketed with Lord Macaulay and
Henry
  Malden), wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in 1822 and became a fellow of Trinity in 1823. In 1824 he was elected professor of ancient languages in the new university of Virginia at Charlottesville, U.S.A., but after four years returned to England as the first Greek professor at the newly founded university of London. In 1842 he succeeded T. H. Key as professor of Latin at University College; in 18461849 he was reader in jurisprudence and civil law in the Middle Temple, and finally (1849187r) classical lecturer at Brighton College. Subsequently he lived in retirement at Portfield, Chichester, in receipt (from 1873) of a Civil
List
  pension of loo a year obtained for him by Gladstone. He was one of the founders (1830), and for twenty years an officer, of the Royal Geographical Society; an active member of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for which he edited the quarterly Journal of Education (1831-1835) as well as many of its text-books; the editor (at first with Charles Knight, afterwards alone) of the Penny Cyclopaedia and of Knight's Political Dictionary; and a member of the Society for Central Education instituted in London in 1837. He contributed the Roman law articles to
Smith
 's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, and wrote also for the companion dictionaries of Biography and Geography. He is remembered, however, mainly as the editor of the Bibliotheca Classica seriesthe first serious attempt to produce scholarly editions of classical texts
with English commentariesto which he contributed the edition of Cicero's Orations 08511862). He died on the loth of August 1879.
Among his other works are: Summary of Herodotus (1829); editions of Herodotus (183o1833) and Xenophon's Anabasis (1831) ; revised editions of J. A. Macleane's Juvenal and Persius (1867) and
Horace
  (1869); the Civil Wars of Rome; a translation with notes of thirteen of Plutarch's Lives (18441848) ; translations of the Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius (1862) and the Discourses of Epictetus (1877); Decline of the Roman Republic (18641874), 5 vols. See H. J.
Matthews
 , " In Memoriam," reprinted from the Brighton College Magazine, 1879.


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