Edward Ross Wharton
Edward Ross Wharton was an English academic, known as a classical scholar and genealogist.
Life
Born at Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales on 4 August 1844, he was second son of Henry James Wharton, vicar of Mitcham; his mother was a daughter of Thomas Peregrine Courtenay, and a younger brother, Henry Thornton Wharton was a medical man known as an ornithologist and for an edition of Sappho. He was educated as a day-boy at Charterhouse School under Richard Elwyn and elected to a scholarship at Trinity College, Oxford in 1862. He graduated as a BA in 1868 and an MA in 1870. Despite poor health and eyesight, he won the Ireland scholarship in his second year. He was placed in the first class in classical moderations and in the final classical school.In 1868 Wharton was elected to a fellowship at Jesus College, where he was assistant tutor and Latin lecturer. He died at Oxford on 4 June 1896, and his remains were cremated at Woking.
Works
Wharton published:- Etyma Græca, an etymological lexicon of classical Greek
- Etyma Latina
- Translations of Aristotle's Poetics and Book i. of Horace's Satires
- Papers for the London Philological Society and the French Société Linguistique