DONALDSON, 'Ton N (1sl1 ell I.
English classical philologist, born in London, lle was educated at the l'iliversity of London, and at Trinity College. from whit+ lie reeeived the degree of KA. in I.. The year following he was t leeted frllntc. ills fir-1 work was as reviser of T'hr TIor Or, of the which passed through eight editions, hal is now :intigpiated. In 1839 he published his ',chichi i, remark able as being the lirst attempt, on a large scale, to familiarize with the of enniparitive philology, as established by Poll, Bopp. (;rintni. :In I othcrc in IIermany. 1)onald son in 1811:welded the post of head master of t he gran n :eh."' at Bury Saint Edmund:. having taken unit vs. Notwithstanding his a, la .1 nvister.lie found time to proseente his lim.mistie "Indies. embracing Ilehrew and 1rabie, and many of the languageA of modern Europe. In hi- l'orroobooni, of which the firq edit ion appeand in 1st I. he undertook to accom plish for Latin philohgy what he had done for (;reek in the .`c•('rat .11111.11g his other work, of till, period are an edition of Pindar, of the Antigun, of :-.0plioule, With a verse transla tion), r (a treatise' on Debrew grammar). and fivallc Joqui• in I. a hook written in Latin, and published at Derlin. the oh of which was. by critical tests. to distinguish the of early Hebrew songs imbedded in the Alasoictie text it the tild This book by the press but reached ? second edition.
Ile resigned pimp at Bury Saint in )s55, and returned to Cambridge. w here he gave a course of on Latin synonym., and occupied himself with teaching. Ilene he wrote a volume entitled 'h ma Orthodoxy, in answer to the critic: of ./osiutr. This also was attacked. .k smaller volume on elassieal scholarship followed. ll• had pre %Musty issned a lin' :11141 a Latin Ora glum r for the use of school,. "These. during his residunee at raiiihri*.e. lie recast and en larged. In 185t; he was appointed one of the classical examiner, in the I niN•rsitv of Lon don, an honor whirl' he owed to 111'. t ;rote. the historian of I:ret•ce. In 18:t8 appeared Iris //i.story of the 1,i 1, cal r. of A m.i, a t cc, in three volumes, the first two of which are a translation from the Delman of K. D. Ile was engaged in superintending the compilation of n new God,- Li •iron, when hi, health began to .holy 011 ; Of I:111111V. .\ tour in Der many during the slimmer of Ist;o did not produce any change for the butter, and he died in his mother', lo.use in London. February 10, I Sli I It Garnet t in hid imia•y of f II UrIll BMg ra y, xv. (1