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SIR JOHN PENTLAND, C. V. O., an Irish educator; born in Switzerland, in 1839. He was educated in Germany and at Trinity College, Dublin, being graduated in 1859, and winning a fellowship in 1864. He was made Professor of Ancient History there in 1869; was Donnellan lecturer 1873-1874.
He was noted for a wide range of scholarship, and was a frequent contributor to periodicals and published books on many subjects. Among these are "Lectures on Primitive Civilization" (1868); "Prolegomena to Ancient History" (1871), treating of Egyptian antiquities; "Rambles and Studies in Greece" (1876) "History of Greek Classical Literature" (1880); "Empire of the Ptolemies" (1896); "The Silver Age of the Greek World" (1906); "What Have the Greeks Done for Civilization?" ("Lowell Lectures," 1909). He died in 1919.