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Jowett, Benjamin

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Jowett, Benjamin (jō`ət, jou`ət), 1817–93, English educator and Greek scholar, b. London. Jowett was a Church of England clergyman, master of Balliol College, Oxford (1870–93), and vice chancellor of Oxford. His influence on his pupils was profound. Jowett's translation of the dialogues of Plato (1871) is an outstanding work both of English literature and of classical scholarship.

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See biography by G. C. Faber (1957).



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