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| 1813 births | |
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| 1884 deaths | |
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As a child, Badham was sent to Switzerland to study under Johann Pestalozzi . He afterwards attended Eton College , and in 1830 was elected to a scholarship at Wadham College, Oxford , but only obtained a third class in Classics (1836), a failure which may have been due to the methods of study at Oxford . In 1837 Badham went to Italy , where he occupied himself in the study of ancient manuscripts, in particular those of the Vatican Library . He afterwards spent some time in Germany, and was incorporated M.A. at Peterhouse, Cambridge , in 1847. Having taken holy orders, he was appointed headmaster of Louth grammar school, Lincolnshire (1851-1854), and subsequently headmaster of Edgbaston proprietary school, near Birmingham . In the interval he had taken the degree of D.D. at Cambridge (1852). In 1860 he received the honorary degree of doctor of letters at the University Of Leiden . In 1866 he left England to take up the professorship of classics and logic in Sydney University , which he held until his death. He was twice married. Dr Badham's classical attainments were recognized by the most famous European critics, such as CG Cobet , Ludwig Preller , W Dindorf , FW Schneidewin , JAF Meineke , A Ritschl and Tischendorf . Like many schoolmasters who are good scholars and even good teachers, he was not a professional success; and his personality may have stood in the way of his advancement. He remains virtually unknown in the United Kingdom . He published editions of Euripides , ''Helena'' and ''Iphigenia in Tauris'' (1851), ''Ion'' (1851); Plato 's ''Philebus'' (1855, 1878); ''Laches'' and ''Eutzydemus'' (1865), ''Phaedrus'' (1851), ''Symposium'' (1866) and ''De Platonis Epistolis'' (1866). He also contributed to classical periodicals such as ''Mnemosyne''. His ''Adhortatio ad Discipulos Academiae Sydniensis'' (1869) contains a number of emendations of Thucydides and other classical authors. He also published some critiques of Shakespeare . A collected edition of his Speeches and Lectures delivered in Australia (Sydney, 1890) contains a memoir by Thomas Butler . REFERENCES |
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