Joseph Blakesley

Background

Joseph Williams Blakesley was born on the 6th of March, 1808 in London, United Kingdom.

Education

Joseph Williams Blakesley was educated at St Paul's School, London, and at Corpus Christi and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Career

In 1831 Joseph Williams Blakesley was elected a fellow, and in 1839 a tutor of Trinity. In 1833 he took holy orders and from 1845 to 1872 held the college living of Ware, Hertfordshire. In 1863 he was made a canon of Canterbury Cathedral and in 1872 Dean of Lincoln.

Blakesley was the author of the first English of Aristotle (1839), an edition of Herodotus (1852–1854) in the Bibliotheca Classica, and Four Months in Algeria (1859).

Works

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  • Herodotus, with a commentary by Joseph Williams Blakesley Volume 2

Politics

Over the signature "Hertfordshire Incumbent" he contributed a large number of letters to The Times on the leading social and political subjects of the day, and he also wrote many reviews of books for that paper.

Membership

At university Joseph Williams Blakesley became a member of the "Apostles Club", along with Alfred Tennyson and other literary names.