LONG, GEORGE, M.A., a distinguished classical scholar, was b. at Poulton, in Lan cashire, in 1800, educated at Trinity college, Cambridge, where he obtained the Craven scholarship in 1821. Long became chancellor's medalist in 1822, and subsequently fellow of his college. In 1824 he accepted the professorship of ancient languages in the university of Virginia, United States; but returned to England in 1826, to become pro fessor of the Greek language and literature iu the London university. This office he resigned in 1831, when he commenced to edit the Journal of Education, published by the society for the diffusion of useful knowledge; but probably the greatest labor—the magnum opus—of his life was his editing for eleven years (from 1832 to 1843) the Penny Cyclopcsdia, to which he was also one of the most valuable contributors. At the con clusion of the 27th volume, honorable mention is made by the society, and by the pub lisher, Mr. Charles Knight, of Long, " by whose leaning, unwearied diligence and watch fulness, unity of plan has been maintained during eleven years, and error, as far as pos sible, avoided." In the micIst of these arduous duties, Long joined the inner temple,
and was called to the bar in 1837. In 1846 he was chosen by the benchers of the middle temple to deliver a three years' course of lectures on jurisprudence and civil law. In 1849 he became professor of cla.ssical literature in the Proprietary college at Brighton, which appointment he held till 1871. Long is one of the best classical editors that Eng land has produced; he is also one of the first authorities on Roman law. Ilis merits as a translator are no less great, as evinced in his Selections from Plutarch's Lives; T houghts of Marcus Antonius, etc. Long has contributed extensively to Smith's Classical Diction aries; and, besides editing Cicero's Orations and Cresar's Gallic War, has published an Analysis of Heroelotus; France and its Revolutions, etc. In 1873 he was granted a pension of R100.