LONG, GEORGE (1800-79). A distinguished English classical scholar. He was born at l'oul ton, in Lancashire. England. and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. where he obtained the Craven scholarship in 1821. Long became chancellor's medalist in 1822, and subsequent ly fellow of his college. In 1824 he accepted the professorship of ancient languages in the Uni versity of Virginia, hut returned to England in 1826, to become professor of the Greek lan guage and literature in the London University. This office he resigned in 1831, when he com menced to edit the Journal of Education, pub lished by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; but probably the greatest labor of his life was his editing for eleven years (from 1832 to 1843) the Penny Cyciop•diu, to which he was also one of the most valuable contributors. In the midst of these arduous duties. Long joined the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar in 1837. In 1846 he was chosen by the benehers
of the Middle Temple to deliver a three years' course of lectures on jurisprudence and civil law. In I549 he became professor of classical literature in the Proprietary College at Brighton, which appointment he held till I s7 I. Long was one of the best classical editors that England has produced; he was also one of the first authorities on IZoman law. His merits as a translator are no less great, as evinced in his 's 1cetio,u from Plutarch's Lives, Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius and his Discourses of Epietetus. Long also con tributed to Smith's Classieal Dictionaries: edited Cieero's Orotions and Caesar's trar; published an Analysis Of Ilcrodot us. France and Its Revolutions, etc. In 1873 he received it life pension of £100. He died August 10, 1879.