Poet, editor, classical scholar, and clergyman. From Bristol. Educated at Balliol
College, Oxford, and a fellow from 1842-1854. Contributed to the
North British Review and the
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1849). Tutor of the poet Digby Mackworth Dolben (1867). Rector of South Luffenham,
Rutlandshire (1854-1869). Author of
Sermons on Prayer (1855) and
Thoughts on Free Inquiry, Evidences, and Subscription (1864). Editor of
Selected Letters of Pliny (1872) and
Selected Letters of Cicero (1872). Biographical information: BL; Rev. Donald Campbell,
Memorials of John McLeod Campbell, D.D., Volume II, Macmillan and Co., 1877, p. 190; Norman MacLeod,
Good Words, December, Strahan & Co. Magazine Publishers, 1866, p. vi;
Digby Mackworth Dolben
Wikipedia,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digby_Mackworth_Dolben (3 August 2021); William Smith,
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume III, Taylor, Walton, and Maberly, p. vi; Joseph Foster,
Alumni Oronienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1715-1886: Their Parentage,
Birthplace, and Year of Birth, with a Record of Their Degrees, Volumes III & IV, Pavkey and Co., 1888, p. 1151. (CC)