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in April 1854, Dean Gaisford having refused to promote him to a senior studentship of his own college, on the ground that no servitor had ever before attained to that honour. Although at that time an Oriel fellowship conferred a deserved distinction, Brown never took kindly to the life, but, after a
558:"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. W. Tuckwell, 726:
dated 13 July 1815 has the following marriage announcement:- On 'Tuesday last, at Oxford, the Rev. Thomas Gaisford, M.A. Regius Professor of Greek, and Rector of Westwell, Oxtordshire, Helen, second daughter of the late Rev. Robert Douglas
565:"It 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, 321:
On 11 May 1815 Gaisford married Helen Margaret Douglas (1791–1830) the daughter of the Rev. Robert Douglas. They had five children. After she died in 1830, he married Jane Catharine Jenkyns (1787–1863); she was the sister of
569:, London : Macmillan, 1870, p. 411, fn. 3. 'Ohe ! jam satis, amice' means idiomatically : 'Oh, that's quite enough, my friend.' The quotation derives with amendment from Abraham Cowley's 604: 474:
Hērodotou Halikarnēssēos Historiōn logoi IX.: Lib. I-IV - Historiarum libri IX: codicem sancrofti manuscriptum denuo contulit reliquam lectionis varietatem commodius digessit
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On 23 June 1843, Gaisford's 21-year-old son, William Gaisford, drowned while swimming in the river Thames at
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few terms of private pupils, returned to the Isle of Man as vice-principal of his old school."
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was founded in Gaisford's honour in 1856, shortly after his death. Gaisford Street in
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Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886
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280: 227:. Taking orders, he held (1815–1847) the college living of 308:"won a double first, however, and was elected a fellow of 254:. His numerous contributions to Greek literature include: 183:, Wiltshire, the son of John Gaisford. 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Iford Manor
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
Christ Church, Oxford
Dean of Christ Church
Iford Manor
Hyde Abbey School
Winchester
Christ Church, Oxford
B.A.
M.A.
B.D.
D.D.
Fellow
Regius Professor of Greek
Westwell, Oxfordshire
Bishop of Oxford
Bodleian Library
Oxford University Press
Bekker
Dindorf
Hephaestion
Stobaeus
Herodotus
Lexicon
Etymologicum Magnum
Eusebius
Praeparatio evangelica
Thomas Edward Brown
Oriel

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