John Conington | |
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| Born | 10 August 1825 |
| Died | 23 October 1869 (aged 44) Boston, Lincolnshire, England |
| Title | Corpus Christi Professor of Latin (1854–1869) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University College, Oxford Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classical scholar |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | University College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford |
John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar. In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott.[1] He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 until his death.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Conington, John". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 942.
