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Name
  
Jeremiah Markland

Died
  
1776

Books
  
Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, and of Brutus to Cicero ... ; with a Dissertation Upon Four Orations Ascribed to M. Tullius Cicero ... ; to which are Added Some Extracts Out of the Notes of Learned Men Upon Those Orations, and Observations on Them

Education
  
Christ's Hospital, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Jeremiah Markland (October 18 (or 29) 1693 – July 7, 1776) was an English classical scholar.

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Life

He was born at Childwall in Liverpool on the 29th (or 18th) of October 1693. He was educated at Christ's Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge.

He left Cambridge in 1728 to act as private tutor to the son of W. Strode of Punsbourn, Hertfordshire, returning to the university in 1733. At a later date he lived at Twyford, and in 1744 went to Uckfield, Sussex, in order to superintend the education of the son of his former pupil, Mr. Strode. In 1752 he fixed his abode at Milton Court, near Dorking, Surrey, and remained there, living in great privacy, to the end of his days.

He died at Milton, near Dorking.

Works

His most important works are

  • Epistola critica (1723)
  • the Sylvae of Statius (1728)
  • notes to the editions of Lysias by Taylor, of Maximus of Tyre by Davies, of Euripides's Hippolytus by Musgrave
  • editions of Euripides's Supplices, Iphigenia in Tauride and in Aulide (ed. T. Gaisford 1811)
  • Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Bruins (1745).
  • References

    Jeremiah Markland Wikipedia