John Conington
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John Conington was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott. He was Corpus Professor
John Conington, in or before 1869
Caricature of Prof Conington's view on the rinderpest in Oxford
Philip Stanhope Worsley
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Philip Stanhope Worsley was an English poet.
John Conington
…literature. The only important exception was the translation of the last twelve books of the Iliad in the Spenserian stanza in completion of the work of P.S. Worsley, and this was undertaken in fulfilment of a promise made to his dying friend. Conington's edition of Persius, with commentary and a prose translation…
Worsley in 1866 by Julia Margaret Cameron