Gaisford, Thomas, D.D.

Gaisford, Thomas, D.D., a distinguished classical scholar, was born in 1780 at Ilford, Wilts. He graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1804. He published an elaborate edition of the Enchiridion of Hephæstion, was public examiner 1809-10, and in 1811 was appointed regius professor of Greek at Oxford. From 1819 to 1847 he was rector of Westwell, Oxfordshire. In 1831 he became dean of Christ Church. He died in 1855, and in his memory a Greek prize was founded at Oxford. Among his classical publications are an edition of the Lexicon of Suidas (1834), and the Etymologicon Magnum (1848).