Frederick Apthorp Paley

Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire , he was the grandson of William Paley , and was educated at Shrewsbury school and St John's College, Cambridge (B.A. 1838). His conversion to Roman Catholicism forced him to leave Cambridge in 1846 , but he returned in 1860 and resumed his work as "coach," until in 1874 he was appointed professor of classical literature at the newly founded Roman Catholic University at Kensington . This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to Boscombe, where he died.

His most important editions are:

Aeschylus , with Latin notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted attention

Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879)

Euripides (2nd ed., 1872)

Hesiod (2nd ed., 1883)

Homer 's '' Iliad '' (2nd ed., 1884)

Sophocles ' ''Philoctetes'', ''Electra'', ''Trachiniae'', ''Ajax'' (1880)--all with English commentary and forming part of the ''Bibliotheca classica''

select private orations of Demosthenes (3rd ed., 1896-1898)

Theocritus (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his minor works

Architecture

''This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica .''

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