Shilletto

Shilletto, RICHARD, the greatest Greek scholar of his day in England, was born in 1810, educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Cambridge, and took the second place in the classical tripos in 1832. Shortly after graduating he married, and thus made himself ineligible for an ordinary fellowship. For some five and thirty years his best energies were given to 'coaching' or private tuition, and it was only in 1867 that he was elected Fellow of St Peter's College, and so obtained leisure to realise the great ambition of his life. This was an edition of Thucydides, of which he only lived to publish the first book, dying on 24th September 1876. He edited Demosthenes' De Falsa Legatione (1844).