Joseph Wells (academic)
Appearance
Joseph Wells | |
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![]() Joseph Wells, 1924, by Glyn Philpot | |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford | |
In office 1923–1926 | |
Preceded by | Lewis Richard Farnell |
Succeeded by | Francis William Pember |
Personal details | |
Born | 1855 |
Died | 1929 |
Alma mater | the Queen's College, Oxford |
Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1923 to 1926.[1]
Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883[2] and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.[3]
Selected publications
Articles
- "The Persian Friends of Herodotus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 27: 37–47. 1907. doi:10.2307/624403.
- "The Genuineness of the Γῆς περίοδος of Hecataeus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 29 (1): 41–52. 1909. doi:10.2307/624641.
- "Cicero and the Conquest of Gaul". The Quarterly Review. 230: 361–379. October 1918.
- "Herodotus and Athens". Classical Philology. 23 (4): 317–331. October 1928. doi:10.1086/361074.
Books
- Oxford and its Colleges, etc.
- A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896)
- Wadham College (1898)
- The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906)
- The Charm of Oxford (1920)
- ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols)
- Studies in Herodotus, 1923
References
- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved July 18, 2011.
- ^ "Wells, Joseph". Who's Who: 2602. 1919.
- ^ The Degree Ceremonies of Oxford University — Part 1.
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