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Thomas Gaisford was born at Iford, Wiltshire, England, on the 22nd of December, 1779.
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Thomas Gaisford was born at Iford, Wiltshire, England, on the 22nd of December, 1779.
Thomas Gaisford was educated at Hyde Abbey School, Winchester before entering the University of Oxford in 1797. He became successful student and tutor of Christ Church.
Thomas Gaisford served as Dean of Christ Church from 1831 until his death. At Oxford, he became successively student and tutor of Christ Church. In 1811, he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek in the University.
Taking orders, he held (1815–1847) the college living of Westwell, Oxfordshire, and other ecclesiastical preferments simultaneously with his professorship.
In 1829, he was offered the position of Bishop of Oxford, but he turned it down. From 1831 until his death, he was Dean of Christ Church.
As curator of the Bodleian Library and principal delegate of the Oxford University Press, Gaisford was instrumental in securing the cooperation of distinguished European scholars as collators, notably Bekker and Dindorf. Among his numerous contributions to Greek literature may be mentioned, Hephaestion"s Encheiridion (1810).
Poëtae minores Graeci (1814–1820).
Stobaeus" Florilegium (1822). Herodotus, with variorum notes (1824). Suidas" Lexicon (1834).
Etymologicum Magnum (1848).
Eusebius"s Praeparatio evangelica (1843) and Demonstratio evangelica (1852). The Gaisford Prize was founded in Gaisford"s honour in 1856, shortly after his death.
Gaisford Street in Kentish Town, north London, was named in his honour. "Nor can I do better, in conclusion, than impress upon you the study of Greek literature, which not only elevates above the vulgar herd, but leads not infrequently to positions of considerable emolument." –Th.
Gaisford, Christmas Day Sermon in the Cathedral, Oxford (Rev West Tuckwell, Reminiscences of Oxford, 2nd ed, 1907, p 124)
"lieutenant was said that Gaisford, on his visit to Germany, had some difficulty in escaping from the "umarmung" of some of its scholars, exclaiming (in the apprehension of a "kuss" on both cheeks) "Ohe ! jam satis, amice"." G.V. Cox, Recollections of Oxford, London: Macmillan, 1870, p.
411, fn. 3. "Ohe ! 6. (Geoffrey Thomas, Birkbeck College, University of London).
As curator of the Bodleian and principal delegate of the University Press Thomas Gaisford was instrumental in securing the co-operation of distinguished European scholars as collators, notably Bekker and Dindorf.
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Thomas Gaisford had 5 children.
