Jeremiah Markland

Jeremiah Markland (October 18 (or 29) 1693 - July 7, 1776), English classical scholar, was born at Childwall in Lancashire on the 29th (or 18th) of October 1693. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital and Peterhouse College, Cambridge. He died at Milton, near Dorking.

His most important works are Epistola critica (1723), the Sylvae of Statius (1728), notes to the editions of Lysias[?] by Taylor, of Maximus of Tyre[?] by Davies, of Euripides' Hippolytus by Musgrave, editions of Euripides' Supplices, Iphigenia in Tauride and in Aulide (ed. T Gaisford, 1811); and Remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Bruins (i745).

See J Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (1812), iv. 272; also biography by FA Wolf, Literarische Analekten, ii. 370 (1818).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.