:''The subject was sometimes surnamed "Hadley", and sometimes "Sheldon Hadley"'' William Sheldon Hadley,

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(b.

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22 October 1859 – d,

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25 December 1927) was a British academic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hadley was educated at

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, graduating

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in 1882, and

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in 1885. He became a

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of Pembroke in 1882; a Lecturer in

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in 1884; and Master of Pembroke in 1912. He was married to Edith Hadley, the daughter of the Reverend Robert Foster, chaplain to the

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in Dublin. Their elder son, Isaac Peyton Sheldon Hadley, served in the First World War, was awarded a

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, and, having been invalided home to convalesce, died of influenza in October 1918. Their younger son,

Patrick Hadley Patrick Arthur Sheldon Hadley (5 March 1899 – 17 December 1973) was a British composer. Biography Patrick Sheldon Hadley was born on 5 March 1899 in Cambridge. His father, William Sheldon Hadley, was at that time a fellow of Pembroke Co ...

, also served in the War, during which he lost a leg, and went on to become a composer.

Works

* ''The War List of Pembroke College, 1914–1918'', Cambridge University Press, 1922. * ''The Alcestis of Euripides'', Cambridge University Press, 1896 (Pitt Press Series). * ''The Hecuba of Euripides'', Cambridge University Press, 1894 (Pitt Press Series). * Euripides, ''Hippolytus'', Cambridge University Press, c. 1890.The Pitt Press Series (Cambridge University Press) – Book Series List
publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 5 July 2020.

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7 letters from William Sheldon Hadley to Oscar Browning

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1859 births 1927 deaths Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Classical scholars of the University of Cambridge Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Masters of Pembroke College, Cambridge People from Moseley {{UCambridge-stub