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Brass was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship in 1811. He graduated Bachelor of Arts as sixth wrangler in the same year, proceeded Master of Arts
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John Brass
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He spelt his name Brass in early life, and Brasse in later years. in 1814, Bachelor of Divinity in 1824, and Doctor of Divinity in 1829. He was presented by his college to the living of Stotfold, Bedfordshire, in 1824, which he held till his death, in 1833. He edited Euclid"s Elements of Geometry, London, 1825(?), and the Œdipus Rex (1829 and 1834), the Œdipus Coloneus (1829), the Trachiniæ (1830), and the Antigone (1830) of Sophocles.
He published a Greek Gradus in 1828, which was reissued, in two volumes, at Göttingen, under the editorship of C. F. G. Siedhof, in 1839-1840, and in England in 1847, under the editorship of the Review
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