Benjamin Bickley Rogers

British classical scholar (1828–1919)

Benjamin Bickley Rogers (11 December 1828 – 22 September 1919) was an English classical scholar.

Rogers was born in Shepton Montague, Somerset in 1828.

He was educated at Highgate School and Wadham College, Oxford,^[1] where he became President of the Oxford Union in 1853. He was elected a Fellow of the college in 1852 and was called to the bar in 1856.^[1] He gave up a successful legal practice when increasing deafness obliged him to retire.^[1]

He then devoted himself exclusively to literature.^[1] He translated all the plays of Aristophanes, reproducing the Greek metres in the English version.^[1] Some of the comic verses use the metre of the Major-General's song in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.

In March 1902 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College.^[2]

Rogers died in Twickenham on 22 September 1919.^[1]

Sources

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Rogers, Benjamin Bickley" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 289.
^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36712. London. 11 March 1902. p. 5.