Richard Crawley

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Richard Crawley (26 December 1840 – 30 March 1893)[1] was a Welsh writer and academic, best known for his translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War.[2]

Life

Crawley was born at a

Literae Humaniores. In 1866, he was elected to a fellowship at Worcester College, Oxford, which he held till 1880.[3]

Called to the bar at

life assurance
company, and that business largely occupied him until his death on 30 March 1893.

Works

In 1868 he published Horse and Foot, a

Elizabethan drama, followed in 1878. Crawley contributed verse to conservative newspapers during the general election of 1880. These he collected in a volume called Election Rhymes in the same year. His most substantial work was a translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. The first book came out in 1866, and the whole was issued in 1874.[4]

References

  1. ^ Obituary in The Times, 8 April 1893
  2. ^ "The Internet Classics Archive | The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides". classics.mit.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  3. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource
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  4. ^ Wikisource Lee, Sidney, ed. (1901). "Crawley, Richard". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

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