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[What is not mentioned in the Timperley article is that Homer DIED in 1791 (below) and his father completed the works, so they may have lost interest in selling the books themselves. PWR]
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Homer, Henry, the younger 1753-1791
Name: Homer, Henry, the younger
Dates: 1753-1791
Active Date: 1791
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Scholarship and Languages
Occupation: Classical scholar
Place of Birth: Warwick
Education: Rugby School, Birmingham , Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Death: Birdingbury
Burial: Birdingbury, Churchyard
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Sources
Bloxam's Magd. Coll. Register, vii. 50; Bromley's Cat...
Contributor
T. C. [Thompson Cooper]
Article
Homer, Henry, the younger 1753-1791, classical scholar, the eldest of the seventeen
children of Henry Homer the elder [q.v.], was born at Warwick in 1753 (Colvile,
Warwickshire Worthies, p. 433). In 1758 he entered Rugby School, of which, at the
age of fourteen, he was the head boy. Afterwards he studied for three years at Birmingham.
In November 1768 he was admitted to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, under Dr. Farmer,
where he became acquainted with Dr. Samuel Parr, who helped to direct his studies.
Among his other intimate college friends were William Bennet [q.v.], afterwards
bishop of Cloyne, and George Dyer [q.v.]. He graduated B.A. in 1773, M.A. in 1776,
and B.D. in 1783. He was elected a fellow of his college in 1778, and returned to
the university from Warwickshire, where he had been living for about three years,
soon after his election. About this time he was admitted into deacon's orders. He
now resided chiefly at Cambridge, and spent much time in the university library,
turning his attention to philological studies. In 1787 he joined with Dr. Parr in
the republication of Bellenden's â??Tracts,â?? and prepared editions of several
classical authors, all remarkable for the accuracy of the text and beauty of the
typography. At the suggestion of Dr. Parr, he undertook a splendid variorum edition
of Horace, but died before its completion. It was finally published by Dr. Charles
Combe, and this occasioned an angry literary altercation between Combe and Parr.
In consequence of religious scruples Homer declined to take priest's orders in compliance
with the college statutes, and his fellowship was therefore declared vacant in June
1788. He died at Birdingbury of a rapid decline on 4 May 1791, and was buried in
the churchyard there.
Homer edited: 1. The first, twenty-fifth, and thirty-first books of â??Livy,â??
from Drakenborch's edition, with Dissertations, 1787, 8vo. 2. Tacitus, â??De Moribus
Germanorum et de Vita Agricolæ,â?? London, 1788, 12mo. 3. â??Tractatus varii Latini,
a Crevier, Brotier, Auger, aliisque clarissimis viris conscripti, et ad Rem cum
criticam, tum antiquariam pertinentes,â?? London, 1788, 8vo. 4. â??P. Ovidii Nasonis
Heroides ex editione P. Burmanni,â?? London, 1789, 8vo. 5. â??A. Persii Flacci Satirarum
liber,â?? 1789, 4to. 6. â??Sallustii Opera Omnia excusa ad editionem Cortii cum
editionibus Havercampi et Gabrielis Antonii collatam,â?? London, 1789, 8vo. 7. â??Taciti
Dialogus de Oratoribus,â?? 1789, 8vo. 8. â??C. Plinii Cæcilii Secundi Epistolarum
libri x.,â?? London, 1790, 8vo. 9. â??Taciti Opera Omnia,â?? 4 vols., London, 1790,
8vo. An elegant and a correct edition, with an elaborate index. 10. â??C. J. Cæsaris
Opera Omnia,â?? 2 vols. London, 1790, 8vo. 11. â??M. T. Ciceronis de Officiis libri
tres, ex editione Oliveti,â?? London, 1791, 16mo. 12. â??Quintilian,â?? in the press
at the time of the editor's death. 13. â??T. Livii Patavini Historiarum libri qui
supersunt omnes ex recensione Arn. Drakenborchii,â?? 8 vols. London, 1794, 8vo;
a very accurate reprint of Drakenborch's text, with an elaborate index. The works
which he left unfinished were completed by his brothers Arthur Homer [see under
Homer, Henry, the elder] and Philip Bracebridge Homer [q.v.].
His portrait has been engraved by J. Jones from a painting by S. Harding.
Sources
Bloxam's Magd. Coll. Register, vii. 50; Bromley's Cat. of Engraved Portraits, p.
363; Chalmers's Biog. Dict.; Dyer's Hist. of the Univ. of Cambr. ii. 391; Evans's
Cat. of Engraved Portraits, n. 5465; Gent. Mag. 1791 pt. i. p. 492, 1806 pt. ii.
p. 1209; Johnstone's Life of Parr, pp. 408-37; Lowndes's Bibl. Man. (Bohn), pp.
345, 459, 1373, 1744, 1885, 2176, 2567, 2704; Nichols's Illustr. of Lit. iv. 704;
Nichols's Lit. Anecd. iii. 163, 660; Rugby School Registers, p. 25.
Contributor
T. C.
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