STOKES, WnrITLEY ( 1830—). A distinguished Celtic scholar and authority on Anglo-Indian law, horn in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated at Trinity College, and became a barrister of the Inner Temple in 1855. In 1802 he went to India, where he occupied various legal positions under the Government. He drafted. the present Code of Civil Procedure and did other important legal work, but became best known, and is likely to be longest remembered, for his contributions to Celtic scholarship, a branch of research which be took up before he went to India, and con tinued during his governmental service there. The greater part of his work deals with early Irish, but his studies included the other Celtic languages, investigations of- Cornish and Brit ish monuments, and contributions to Celtic grammar. It has been said that his researches have done more than those of any other scholar to make accessible the literary and historical monu ments of the ancient Irish language. His writ
ings are intended mainly for scholars, but his texts usually are accompanied by translations, and some of these possess high literary worth. Conspicuously good are his renderings of the "Death of the Sons of Usnach" (Irish Texte, ii.), and of the "Briden Da Derga" TiCrItC ccltique, vol. xxii.). His principal pub lications are: Irish Glosses (1860) ; Three Irish Glossaries (1862): Tito Play of the Sacrament (1862) ; The Passion, a Middle-Cornish P0e117, (1862) : The Creation of the World: A Cornish. Mystery (1883) : Three Middle-Irish Homilies (1871) ; Goideliea. (2d ed. 1872) ; Ileunaus Meriasek (1872): Hidclle-Breton flours (1876) ; The Calendar of (Miry's (1880) ; The Tripartite Life of Saint Patrick (1887) ; The Old Irish Glosses at Wiirzburg and Garlsruhc (1887); Lires of Saints from the Book of Rismore (1880) : Urkeltischer Cprachschatz (1894) ; The Martyrology of Gorman (1895).