BLAYDES

blaydes, frederick henry marvell (1818-1908), english classical scholar, was born at hampton court green, on the 29th of september 1818, being a collateral descendant of andrew marvell, the satirist and friend of milton. he was educated at st peter's school, york, and christ church, oxford. he was hertford scholar in 1838, took a second class in literae humaniores in 1840, and was subsequently elected to a studentship at christ church. in 1842 he took orders, and from 1843 to 1886 was vicar of harringworth in northamptonshire. during a long life he devoted himself almost entirely to the study of the greek dramatists. his editions and philological papers are remarkable for bold conjectural emendations of corrupt (and other) passages. his distinction was recognized by his being made an honorary ll.d. of dublin, ph.d. of the university of buda pest and a fellow of the royal society of letters at athens. he died at southsea on the 7th of september 1908. his works include:--aristophanes: _comedies and fragments_, with critical notes and commentary (1880-1893); _clouds, knights, frogs, wasps_ (1873-1878); _opera omnia_, with critical notes (1886); sophocles; _oedipus coloneus, oedipus tyrannus_ and _antigone_ (in the bibliotheca classica, 1859); _philoctetes_ (1870), _trachiniae_ (1871), _electra_ (1873), _ajax_ (1875), _antigone_ (1005); aeschylus: _agamemnon_ (1898), _choephori_ (1899), _eumenides_ (1900), _adversaria critica in comicorum graecorum fragmenta_ (1890); _in tragicorum graec. frag._ (1894), _in aeschylum_ (1895), _in varios poetas graecos et latinos_ (1898), _in aristophanem_ (1899), _in sophoclem_ (1899), _in euripidem_ (1901), _in herodotum_ (1901); _analecta comica graeca_ (1905); _analecta tragica graeca_ (1906).