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RICHARD CLAVERHOUSE, a Scotch classical scholar; born in Dundee, Aug. 27, 1841. He was educated at St. Columba's College, Dublin, the Charterhouse, London, and Cambridge University, and was graduated as senior classic at Trinity College in 1862. In 1869 he became public orator of that university, and in 1875 he was called to fill the Greek chair in Glasgow University, which he resigned in 1889, on being appointed Greek Professor at Cambridge. His best known works are "The Attic Orators"; "Modern Greece"; a "Life of Richard Bentley"; "Homer: an Introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey"; and an edition of Sophocles. He died in 1905.

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