John Wesley Hales
John Wesley Hales (Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, 5 October 1836 - London, 19 May 1914), was a British scholar and man of letters.[1]
Life[]
John Wesley Hales was educated at Louth grammar school, Glasgow High School, Durham School, Glasgow University and Christ's College, Cambridge, which elected him to a fellowship.[2] He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under George Granville Bradley, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of Wales, New Zealand and Cambridge, and from 1889-93 on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English literature at King's College London.[3]
In May 1901 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.[4]
He married Henrietta Trafford, daughter of judge and Eliza Frances Tarleton, in 1867.[5][6]
Works[]
Hales published 109 works in 300 publications in 5 languages.[7] A selection is shown below.
- (general editor)
- (1874)
- Percy Folio Manuscript (1867-8) (co-editor)
- Longer English Poems (1872, 1884) [1] (editor)
- Notes and Essays on Shakespeare (1884) [2]
- Essays and Notes on Shakespeare (1892) [3]
- Folia Litteraria: Essays and Notes on English Literature (1893) [4]
- (introduction)
- The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats with Philological and Explanatory Notes by J.W. Hales (1889) [5]
Contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900[]
Edited works[]
- Complete Works of Edmund Spenser: A Variorum Edition (1893) [6]
References[]
- ^ A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin (John William Cousin), 1849–1910.
- ^ "Hales, John Wesley (HLS855JW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times (36453). London. 13 May 1901. p. 7.
- ^ http://thepeerage.com/p34646.htm
- ^ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Times/1914/Obituary/John_Wesley_Hales
- ^ http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities/lccn-n84-46570
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- Correspondence from John Wesley Hales, Professor of English at King's College, London, sometime of Louth at Lincolnshire Archives
- Works by John Wesley Hales at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about John Wesley Hales at Internet Archive
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