Richard Porson
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Richard Porson was an English classical scholar. He was the discoverer of Porson's Law.
Richard Porson, after a picture by John Hoppner
Portrait of Richard Porson, 1830
Porson's suggested reconstruction of the missing Greek text of the Rosetta Stone
Richard Bentley
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Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, Anglican cleric, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English sc
Richard Porson
…in April. What first set his mind towards literary criticism was the gift of a copy of Jonathan Toup's Longinus by the headmaster of Eton; but it was Richard Bentley and Richard Dawes to whom he looked as his immediate masters. Porson became a scholar of Trinity in 1780, won the Craven university scholarship in 1781…
Bentley, PA05593
Plaque on Bentley Square, Oulton, West Yorkshire
A bust of Bentley now stands in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge