Cary, REV. HENRY FRANCIS

Cary, REV. HENRY FRANCIS, translator of Dante, was born at Gibraltar in 1772. He was educated at Rugby, Sutton-Coldfield, and Birmingham, in 1790 entered Christ Church College, Oxford, and in 1796 took holy orders. In 1805 he published a translation of the Inferno, in 1814 of the whole Divina Commedia, a translation remarkable not only for its fidelity but for its force and expressiveness. He afterwards translated Pindar's Odes and Aristophanes' Birds, and wrote a series of memoirs in continuation of Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Assistant-librarian in the British Museum (1826–37), he died 14th August 1844. See the Memoir by his son (2 vols. 1847).