Edward Henry Blakeney

Edward Henry Blakeney (15 August 1869 – August 1955) was an English classical scholar and poet, born in Mitcham. He died in his hometown Winchester.

Life

Edward Henry Blakeney was the son of William Blakeney of Westward Ho!, a Paymaster-in-Chief in the Navy. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1891 and M.A. in 1895. From 1895 to 1901 he was headmaster of Sir Roger Manwood's School in Sandwich, from 1901 to 1904 headmaster of Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow, and from 1904 to 1918 headmaster of King's School, Ely. He was an Assistant Master at Winchester College from 1918 to 1930, and a lecturer in English Literature at Southampton University from 1929 to 1931.[1]

Blakeney married and had children.[1] As well as several volumes of poetry, he published editions and translations of classical Latin and Greek texts - including the histories of Herodotus and Tacitus - as well as editions of works by Milton.

Works
See also: English translations of Homer § Blakeney
Poetry
  • The Exile's Return, and other poems, Cambridge : J. Palmer, 1890
  • Driftwood, or, Wayside musings in verse, Ramsgate: Sutton and Goodchild, 1893
  • Voices after sunset : and other poems, 1897
Other
  • (ed.) Letters from A.E. Housman to E.H. Blakeney, Winchester: Printed at Mr. Blakeney's Private Press, 1941
gollark: If I saw the top one (and it wasn't in an event like this where everyone will second-guess everything) I would assume that it was written by someone who used C(++) a lot.
gollark: e.g. if you have some JS code, and you see that the author used ```javascriptfunction deployBee(){}```brackets and not```javascriptfunction deployBee() {}```ones, you need to know a bit about what JS code normally looks like to infer anything like that.
gollark: I don't think so. Things like variable names and formatting are *fairly* obvious, although you may need to read a decent sample of code in language X to learn what people generally do there regarding those, but stuff like what constructs are generally used for tasks in language X are not.
gollark: Wait, he said it *wasn't* good, oh dear.
gollark: I just implemented bubble sort, since I heard Obama saying it was good.

References
  1. "Blakeney, Edward Henry (BLKY888EH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
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