Gerald Henry Rendall (1851–1945) was an

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educator and college administrator, born at Harrow, where his father was assistant master. He was educated at Harrow and at

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, graduating BA as 4th Classic in 1874. He was a fellow and assistant tutor at Trinity from 1875 to 1880. He was principal of University College,

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, and

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in 1880-97, and then the headmaster of

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1897-1911. From 1891 to 1895 he was also Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University. His most important publications were on early

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authors writing during the

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and on their late pagan opponents such as Julian the Apostate and Marcus Aurelius. Rendall was also an advocate of the

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, a view he propounded in a number of publications, including ''Personal Clues in Shakespeare Poems & Sonnets'' (1934) and ''Shakespeare: Handwriting and Spelling'' (1931). He became a "fervent and prolific convert" to the theory at the age of 80.Michael Keevak, ''Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture'', Wayne State University Press, p. 80.

Works

* ''Text and Commentary to Epistle of

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'' (1877), edited by

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* ''The Emperor Julian, Paganism, and Christianity'' (1879), Hulsean prize essay for 1876 * versions of

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(1897, 1901) * ''Epistles to the Corinthians'' (1909) * ''Charterhouse Sermons'' (1911) * ''John Smith, of Harrow'' (1912) * "Shakespeare Sonnets and Edward de Vere" (1930)

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