Abel Greenidge
Abel Hendy Jones Greenidge (22 December 1865 – 11 March 1906) was a writer on ancient history and law.[1]
Early life and education
Greenidge was born on 22 December 1865 at Belle Farm Estate,
Life
Greenidge was educated at
On 29 June 1895, Greenidge married Edith Elizabeth, youngest daughter of William Lucy of Headington, Oxford, who owned the Lucy Ironworks, previously known as the Eagle Ironworks, in that town. They had two sons, John Waterman and Terence Lucy. It was Terence who introduced Evelyn Waugh to the Hypocrites Club while they were at the University of Oxford together and between John, Terence and Waugh, they staged the Scarlet Woman, An Ecclesiastical Melodrama,[2] which was an early cinematic production.
Greenidge died suddenly at his residence in Oxford of an affection of the heart on 11 March 1906 and was buried in Holywell Cemetery, Oxford. On 29 March 1907 a civil pension of £75 was granted to his widow "in consideration of his services to the study of Roman Law and History"; she died on 9 July 1907.
Contributions to scholarship
Greenidge taught throughout his writing career. Two years after coming down from Oxford, he contributed many articles to a new edition of Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities (1890/91). His first book Infamia, its place in Roman Public and Private Law was published at Oxford in 1894. His next work was a Handbook of Greek Constitutional History (1896),[3] in which he gave a narrative of the main lines of development of Greek Public Law, Roman Public Life (1901)[4] in which he traced the growth of the Roman constitution and showed the political genius of Romans in dealing with all the problems of administration they had to face. This was followed by The Legal Procedure in Cicero's Time, Oxford (1901),[5] a systematic and historical treatment of civil and criminal procedure. He also revised Sir William Smith's History of Rome (1897), (down to the death of Justinian) of the Student's Gibbon (1899). In 1903, in cooperation with Agnes Muriel Clay, he produced Sources of Roman History BC 133-70 (Oxford), designed to prepare the way for a new History of Rome. In 1904, he contributed an historical introduction to the 4th edition of Poste's Institutes of Gaius.
In the same year, appeared the first volume of A History of Rome during the Later Republic and Early Principate covering the years 133 to 104 B.C. This work was designed to extend to the accession of
On his death, The Times recorded that "His death will be regarded as a great loss to classical scholarship; in his own department of ancient history he was an acknowledged authority, and what he had already given to the world gave further promise of the future." The Daily Telegraph declared that "Abel Greenidge had tapped sources of Roman Law that English scholars did not even know about".[citation needed]
References
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Linck, Charles E. (23 July 2008). "WAUGH-GREENIDGE FILM - THE SCARLET WOMAN". Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 29 December 2022.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Review of A Handbook of Greek Constitutional History by A. H. J. Greenidge". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 83 (2151): 73–74. 16 January 1897.
- ^ "Review of Roman Public Life by A. H. J. Greenidge". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 93 (2412): 81–82. 18 January 1902.
- ^ Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) (1901). The legal procedure of Cicero's time. Robarts - University of Toronto. Oxford : Clarendon Press.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- F. A. Hoyos M.A., Barbados Museum & Historical Society, May & August 1951, Vol. XVIII, Nos 3 & 4, pp. 127–137.