LINWOOD, William. Birmingham 1817 — Staffordshire 7.9.1878. Rev. British Classical Scholar. Son of William L., a merchant, and Mary Iliffe Swinton. After Birmingham grammar school studied Classics and Sanskrit at Oxford (Christ Church) from 1836 (won 1839 Boden Sanskrit Scholarship). B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842. He took orders and taught at Shrewsbury school, then 1850 public examiner at Oxford. As a scholar, he mainly concentrated on Greek philology. He seems to have been an eccentric character. Married Isabella Andrews (1825–1863), one son).
Publications: Studies on Greek, lexicon to Aeschylus and editions of Sophocles.
Sources: JRAS Proc. 1879, vf.; W[arwick William]W[roth], D.N.B. 33, 1893, 335; ancestry.com; Wikipedia.
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