Gell, SIR WILLIAM

Gell, SIR WILLIAM, English antiquary and classical scholar, was born at Hopton in Derbyshire in 1777. He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1798, after which he held for some time a fellowship at Emmanuel College. He devoted his time principally to antiquarian research and geographical studies, and published works on the topography of Troy (1804), Pompeii (4 vols. 1817-32), and Rome (1834); itineraries of Greece (1810), the Morea (1817), and Attica (1817), as well as a book on the Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1808), and a Journey in the Morea (1823). Of these works the best was that on the antiquities and topography of Pompeii. For some years after 1814 he was one of the chamberlains of Caroline, consort of George IV. He died at Naples, February 4, 1836.