CONINGTON, JOHN 0825-1869), English classical schol ar, was born at Boston in Lincolnshire. He had a distinguished career at Oxford, and in 1854 was appointed, as first occupant, to the chair of Latin literature founded by Corpus Christi College. In 1852 he began, in conjunction with Prof. Goldwin Smith, a complete edition of Virgil with a commentary, of which the first volume appeared in 1858, the second in 1864, and the third, in which H. Nettleship replaced Prof. Goldwin Smith, soon after Conington's death. In 1866 Conington published his most famous work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Scott.
His edition of Persius with a commentary and a spirited prose translation was published posthumously in 1872. In the same year appeared his Miscellaneous Writings, edited by J. A. Symonds, with a memoir by Prof. H. J. S. Smith (see also H. A. J. Munro in Journal of Philology, ii., 1869). Among his other editions are Aeschy lus, Agamemnon (1848), Choephori (1857) ; English verse translations of Horace, Odes and Carmen Saeculare (1863), Satires, Epistles, and Ars Poetica 0869).