Elmsley

Elmsley, PETER, classical scholar, was born in 1773, and educated at Westminster and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1794. He next took orders, and was presented in 1798 to the living of Little Horkesley in Essex, which he held till his death. He lived at various periods of his life at Edinburgh, at St Mary Cray in Kent, and at Oxford, where he was in 1823 appointed principal of St Alban Hall, and Camden professor of Ancient History. Here he died, 8th March 1825. Elmsley contributed to the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, but is now remembered only by his valuable critical work on Sophocles and Euripides. See Elmsleiana Critica (1833).