Augustus Samuel Wilkins

Augustus Samuel Wilkins (1843–1905) was an English classical scholar. He held a professorship of Latin in Manchester for 34 years.

Life

He was born in Enfield Road,

exhibition in October 1864, he became a foundation scholar in 1866. He was President of the Cambridge Union for Lent term, 1868.^[1]^[2]

In 1868 Wilkins graduated B.A. as fifth in the first class of the classical tripos. A nonconformist, Wilkins was at that point legally disqualified from a college fellowship; that changed after the

Owens College, Manchester; in 1869 he was promoted to the Latin professorship there.^[1]

At Manchester Wilkins promoted

Lancashire Independent College and the council of the Manchester High School for Girls. In 1903, after 34 years' tenure of the Latin professorship, a weak heart compelled him to resign, whereupon he became professor of classical literature.^[1]

On 26 July 1905, Wilkins died at Rhos-on-Sea in North Wales, and was buried in the cemetery of Colwyn Bay.^[1]

Works

History of the Roman literature (Hungarian edition, 1895)

As a student, Wilkins won a number of prizes, and his university prize essays were published:^[1]

Christian and Pagan Ethics, Hulsean Prize for 1868, appearing in 1869 as The Light of the World, and reaching a second edition, was dedicated to
James Baldwin Brown the younger
Phœnicia and Israel, (1871), Burney Prize for 1870, was dedicated to James Fraser.
National Education in Greece (1873), Hare Prize for 1873, was dedicated to Connop Thirlwall.

Wilkins's major work was his full edition of

Cicero De Oratore, lib. i.–iii. (Oxford, 1879–1892). A critical edition of the text of the whole of Cicero's rhetorical works followed in 1903. As an editor he came into line with contemporary German scholarship:^[1]

In 1868 he translated Karl Wilhelm Piderit's German notes on Cicero De Oratore, lib. i.
With Edwin Bourdieu England, he translated Georg Curtius's Principles of Greek Etymology and Greek Verb.

Wilkins also issued commentaries on Cicero's

De Imperio Gnæi Pompeii (1879), and on Horace's Epistles (1885).^[1]

To

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, 3rd edit., on Roman antiquities, and in Companion to Greek Studies (Cambridge, 1904) on Greek education.^[1]

With Henry John Roby, Wilkins prepared an Elementary Latin Grammar in 1893.^[1]

Awards and honours

Wilkins dedicated his edition of the De Oratore to the

Trinity College, Dublin in 1892, and took the degree of Litt.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1885.^[1]

Family

In 1870, Wilkins married Charlotte Elizabeth Field, the second daughter of William Field of

Bishop Stortford; she survived him with a daughter and three sons.^[1]^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Wilkins, Augustus Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ ^a ^b "Wilkins, Augustus Samuel (WLKS864AS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

External links

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Wilkins, Augustus Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[DNB-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Wilkins, Augustus Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[acad-2] "Wilkins, Augustus Samuel (WLKS864AS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

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