Joseph Wells (academic)

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		Died 1929 Name Joseph Wells
Alma mater the Queen's College, Oxford
Preceded by Lewis Richard Farnell Succeeded by Francis William Pember

Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1923 to 1926.

Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883 and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

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.

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

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