Hadley, JAMES

Hadley, JAMES, an American philologist, was born at Fairfield, New York, 30th March 1821, graduated at Yale in 1842, was for six years tutor and assistant professor there, and was professor of Greek from 1851 until his death at New Haven, 14th November 1872. He was one of the American committee for the revision of the New Testament. Hadley published a Greek grammar and Elements of the Greek Language (1869); after his death a volume of lectures on Roman Law appeared, and a series of Philological and Critical Essays (1873; ed. by Professor W. D. Whitney).