Porson
RICHARD, an English Dec. 25, 1759. In 1777 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, where he highly distinguished himself in classics, and in chosen to a fellowship. This he resigned 1782 took the degree of B. A. and was in 1792, since it could no longer be held holy orders. Soon after he was unaniby a layman, and Porson declined to take mously elected Greek professor. He edited and annotated several Greek works, especially four of the dramas of being one of the best Greek scholars and Euripides, and enjoyed the reputation of critics of the age. In 1806 he was appointed librarian to the London Institution. He was familiar with English literature, and wrote for some of the chief periodicals of the day. He died in London, Sept. 25, 1808.