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George Long

Born

in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, The United Kingdom

November 04, 1800

Died

August 10, 1879

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George Long (November 4, 1800 – August 10, 1879) was an English classical scholar.

Long was born at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, and educated at Macclesfield Grammar School, St John's College, Cambridge and later Trinity College, Cambridge.

He was Craven university scholar in 1821 (bracketed with Lord Macaulay and Henry Maiden), wrangler and senior chancellor's medallist in 1822 and became a fellow of Trinity in 1823. In 1824 he was elected professor of ancient languages in the new University of Virginia at Charlottesville, but after four years returned to England as the first professor of Greek at the newly founded University College in London.

In 1842 he succeeded T. H. Key as Professor of Latin at University College; in 1846–1849 he was re ...more

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“Plutarch was well born, well taught, well conditioned; a self-respecting amiable man, who knew how to better a good education by travels, by devotion to affairs private and public; a master of ancient culture, he read books with a just criticism: eminently social, he was a king in his own house, surrounded himself with select friends, and knew the high value of good conversation; and declares in a letter written to his wife that 'he finds scarcely an erasure, as in a book well written, in the happiness of his life.”
― George Long, Plutarch's Lives

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“Great abilities are rare, and they are often accompanied by qualities which make the abilities useless to him who has them, and even injurious to society.”
― George Long, An Old Man's Thoughts About Many Things

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