Hubert Ashton Holden (12 May 1822
[''England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975''] – 1 December 1896) was an
English
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classical scholar.
Biography
He was born in
Birmingham
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[''1891 England Census''] into an old
Staffordshire
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family. He was educated at
King Edward's College, Birmingham, under
Francis Jeune
Francis Jeune (22 May 1806 – 21 August 1868), also known as François Jeune, was a Jersey-born clergyman, schoolmaster, and academic who served as Dean of Jersey (1838–1844) Master of Pembroke College, Oxford (1844–1864), and Bishop of ...
(afterwards bishop of Peterborough), and subsequently under
James Prince Lee
James Prince Lee (28 July 1804 – 24 December 1869) was an English clergyman and schoolmaster who became head master of King Edward's School, Birmingham, and was later the first Bishop of Manchester.
Early life
Born in London, Lee was educate ...
(afterwards bishop of Manchester).
He proceeded to
Trinity College, Cambridge
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, and in his first year of residence, 1842, gained the first Bell university scholarship.
He graduated B.A. in 1845, being senior classic, and junior optime in the mathematical tripos, and was fellow of Trinity College from 1847 to 1854; he was LL.D. in 1863.
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In 1848, he was ordained deacon, and took priest's orders in 1859.
He discharged the duties of assistant tutor and classical lecturer of his college from 1848 until 1853, when he was appointed vice-principal of
Cheltenham College
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, and continued in that post until 1858.
From 1858 to 1883, he was headmaster of
Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich. In 1890, he was appointed by the crown to a fellowship of the university of London, in which he had been classical examiner from 1869 till 1874, and examiner in Greek from 1886 till 1890. In 1892 the degree of Litt.D. was conferred on him by Dublin University. He died on 1 Dec. 1896, at 20 Redcliffe Square, London, in his seventy-fifth year, and was buried on 5 December in the eastern side of
Highgate Cemetery
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.
In addition to several school editions of portions of
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...
,
Thucydides
Thucydides (; grc, , }; BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientifi ...
,
Xenophon
Xenophon of Athens (; grc, wikt:Ξενοφῶν, Ξενοφῶν ; – probably 355 or 354 BC) was a Greek military leader, philosopher, and historian, born in Athens. At the age of 30, Xenophon was elected commander of one of the biggest Anci ...
and
Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...
, he published an expurgated text of
Aristophanes
Aristophanes (; grc, Ἀριστοφάνης, ; c. 446 – c. 386 BC), son of Philippus, of the deme
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with a useful ''onomasticon'' (re-issued separately, 1902) and larger editions of
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...
's ''De officiis'' (revised ed., 1898) and of the ''Octavius'' of
Minucius Felix
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Marcus Minucius Felix (died c. 250 AD in Rome) was one of the earliest of the Latin apologists for Christianity.
Nothing is known of his personal history, and even the date at which he wrote can be only approximately ascertained as betwe ...
(1853).
He married Letitia Lofft and was the father of Brig.-Gen. Sir
Capel Lofft Holden
Brigadier-General Sir Henry Capel Lofft Holden (23 January 1856 – 30 March 1937) was an English engineer, the designer of Brooklands motor racing circuit, chairman of The Royal Automobile Club and other organisations.
Biography
He was born ...
.
Works
Those by which he was best known are 'Foliorum Silvula : Selections for Translation into Latin and Greek Verse, chiefly from the University and College Examination Papers,' Cambridge, 1852 (four parts : pt. i. 2nd ed. 1888 ; pt. ii. 4th ed. 1890 ; pt. iii. 3rd ed. 1864) ; 'Foliorum Centuriæ,' 1852 (10th ed. 1888), a similar collection of pieces for translation into
Latin
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and
Greek
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prose, and 'Folia Silvulæ, sive Eclogæ Poetarum Anglicorum in Latinum et Græcum conversæ' (Cambridge, vol. i. 1865 ; vol. ii. 1870), containing select translations, by various hands, of pieces from the preceding volumes.
All these were edited for the syndics of the Cambridge University Press.
For the same body he edited Cicero's 'De Officiis' (1869 ; 6th ed. 1886 ; revised edition, 1898), and 'Pro Gnteo Plancio Oratio ad Judices' (1881) ; Xenophon's 'Cyropædeia' (3 vols. 1887–90) ; Plutarch's ' Lives of the Gracchi' (1885), 'Lucius Cornelius Sulla' (1885), 'Nicias' (1887), 'Timoleon' (1889), and 'Demosthenes' (1893); the 'Octavius' of Minucius Felix : the text newly revised from the original manuscript (1853) ; 'Thucydides, book vii.' (1891) ; the comedies of Aristophanes' (1848). He published, in collaboration with Richard Dacre Archer Hind, 'Sabrinæ Corolla in Hortulis Regiæ Scholæ Salopiensis continuerunt tres Viri Floribus Legendis' (1850; 4th ed. 1890), a collection of poetical extracts with translations into Latin or Greek. Holden edited also the following works for Macmillan's 'Classical Series:' Plutarch's 'Lives' of Pericles (1894) and Themistocles (1881 ; 3rd ed. enlarged, 1892); Xenophon's 'Hieron' (1883; 3rd ed. 1888) and 'Œconomicus' (1884; 4th ed. 1889); and Cicero's 'Pro Public Sestio' (1883 ; 3rd ed. 1889).
References
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1822 births
1896 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
English classical scholars
People educated at Shrewsbury School
Scholars of Latin literature
Scholars of ancient Greek literature