(1800-1879) Classical scholar, educated at Cambridge. He was Professor of Ancient Languages in the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1824-28, of Greek at University College, London, 1828-31, and of Latin there, 1842-46. He did much for the diffusion of education, was one of the founders and secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, and editor of the Penny Cyclopædia. He translated Marcus Aurelius (1862), and The Discourses of Epictetus (1877), and wrote Two Discourses on Roman Law (1847), a subject on which he was the greatest English authority.