Valpy, RICHARD, D.D.

Valpy, RICHARD, D.D., was born in Jersey, 7th December 1754, and had his education at Valognes in Normandy, Southampton grammar-school, and Pembroke College, Oxford. He took orders in 1777, was the successful head-master of Reading grammar-school (1781-1830), as well as rector of Stradishall in Suffolk from 1787, and died at Kensington, 28th March 1836. His Greek and Latin grammars carried his name far beyond the bounds even of the large influence of a head-master of fifty years.—His brother, Edward Valpy (1764-1832), was head-master of Norwich School from 1810, and left Elegantiae Latinae (1803), and an edition of the Greek Testament (3 vols. 1810).