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Benjamin Bickley Rogers

British classical scholar (1828–1919) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Benjamin Bickley Rogers (11 December 1828 – 22 September 1919) was an English classical scholar.

Rogers was born in Shepton Montague, Somerset in 1828.

He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford,[1] where he became President of the Oxford Union in 1853. He was elected a Fellow of the college in 1852 and was called to the bar in 1856.[1] He gave up a successful legal practice when increasing deafness obliged him to retire.[1]

He then devoted himself exclusively to literature.[1] He translated all the plays of Aristophanes, reproducing the Greek metres in the English version.[1] Some of the comic verses use the metre of the Major-General's song in Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

In March 1902 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College.[2]

Rogers died in Twickenham on 22 September 1919.[1]

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