Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1923 to 1926.[1]
Joseph Wells | |
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,_Fellow_(1882),_Warden_(1913-1927);_Wadham_College,_University_of_Oxford.jpg) Joseph Wells, 1924, by Glyn Philpot | |
| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford | |
| In office 1923–1926 | |
| Preceded by | Lewis Richard Farnell |
| Succeeded by | Francis William Pember |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1855 |
| Died | 1929 |
| Alma mater | the Queen's College, Oxford |
Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883[2] and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.[3]
Selected publications
editArticles
edit- Wells, J. (1907). "The Persian Friends of Herodotus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 27: 37–47. doi:10.2307/624403. JSTOR 624403.
- "The Genuineness of the Γῆς περίοδος of Hecataeus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 29 (1): 41–52. 1909. doi:10.2307/624641. JSTOR 624641.
- "Cicero and the Conquest of Gaul". The Quarterly Review. 230: 361–379. October 1918.
- Wells, J. (October 1928). "Herodotus and Athens". Classical Philology. 23 (4): 317–331. doi:10.1086/361074. S2CID 162214786.
Books
edit- Oxford and its Colleges, etc.
- A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896)
- Wadham College (1898)
- The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906)
- The Charm of Oxford (1920)
- ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols)
- Studies in Herodotus, 1923
References
edit- ^ "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
- ^ "Wells, Joseph". Who's Who: 2602. 1919.
- ^ The Degree Ceremonies of Oxford University — Part 1.
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