James Riddell (scholar)

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James Riddell (1823–1866) was an English classical scholar.

Life

Born on 8 June 1823, he was the eldest son of James Riddell (1796–1878), rector of

literæ humaniores with Thomas Arnold and Goldwin Smith
. He was elected Fellow of Balliol, serving his college as lecturer or tutor till his death.

He was classical examiner in 1858–9, classical moderator in 1865–6, and senior proctor and select preacher in 1862. He died at

Tunbridge Wells
on 14 September 1866.

Works

Riddell was invited by the delegates of the

William Walter Merry
(Clarendon Press, 1st edit. 1876). Of his work on Plato he lived to finish only the Apology. It was printed after his death at the Clarendon Press in 1867. In the same volume appeared a Digest of Platonic Idioms.

He made various translations, in the Anthologia Oxoniensis and in Sabrinæ Corolla. These were collected, with additions, in Reliquiæ Metricæ (Oxford and London, 1867).

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain"Riddell, James (1823-1866)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.