Henry Stuart Jones
Sir Henry Stuart Jones,
From 1903 to 1905 he was Director of the British School at Rome[3] and, in 1920, moved from Trinity to Brasenose College to take up the post of Camden Professor of Ancient History which he held until 1927 when he took up a series of Welsh academic posts listed below. Originally, Stuart was his second forename, but he and his wife generally prefixed it to their surname, and he was knighted in 1933 under the name Stuart-Jones.[4]
Career
He attended the British School at Athens and later served as director of the British School at Rome.
For Oxford University Press, Stuart Jones edited Thucydides' Historiae, the history of the Peloponnesian War, in two volumes. The first volume was published in 1900, the second in the next year. This work is still in print more than a century later, in the edition revised by Enoch Powell.
Stuart Jones began in 1911 the revision of
Sir Henry was the ideal Editor; his wide range of knowledge and his exact scholarship, his persistent devotion to his task even in periods of ill health, his tactful assiduity in consulting experts and his skill in co-ordinating their results, gave the work at once its consistency and its elasticity.
Stuart Jones began his relationship with
He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1920 to 1922.[6]
Death
He died on 29 June 1939, aged 72.[7]
References
- ^ 'Oxford University Calendar, 1895', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895: 265, 347
- ^ 'Oxford University Calendar, 1914', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914: 440
- ^ 'Oxford University Calendar, 1914', Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914: 440
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- ^ "University News – New Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College". The Times. 3 March 1928. p. 14.
- ^ "School Notes" (PDF). The Abingdonian.
- ^ "No. 34652". The London Gazette. 8 August 1939. p. 5520.
External links
- Works by or about Henry Stuart-Jones at Wikisource
- Publications of Sir Henry Stuart Jones