BURY, JOHN BAGNELL (1861-1927), British historian, was born Oct. 16, 1861, and was educated at Trinity college, Dub lin, where he was elected to a fellowship in 1885. A fine Greek scholar, he edited Pindar's Nemean and Isthmian Odes; but he devoted himself chiefly to the study of history, and was chosen professor of modern history at Dublin in 1893, becoming regius professor of Greek in 1898. He resigned both positions in 1902, when he was elected regius professor of modern history in the university of Cambridge. His historical work was mainly con cerned with the later Roman empire, and his edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, with a masterly introduction and valuable notes (1896-190o) is the standard text. He also wrote histories of The Roman Empire, 27 B.c.-I8o A.D. (1893), Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900), The Eastern Roman Em pire, 802-867 (1912), and The Later Roman Empire, (1923) ; a Life of St. Patrick (19o5) ; The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians (1928); etc. He died in Rome June 1, 1927. See the Bibliography, with Memoir by N. H. Baynes (1929).