American Anglo-Saxon scholar, born in Aldie, VA, on the 24th of April 1840. After graduating at the University of Virginia, he studied in the Universities of Berlin and Leipsic. He took part in the Civil War, in the Confederate army. He was instructor in English in various colleges until 1882, when he was appointed to the chair of English language and literature in the University of Virginia. He wrote a number of translations of Anglo-Saxon writings; among them, Beowulf’s Fight at Finnsburg (1882); Anglo-Saxon Poems (1889); and Selections in English Prose from Elizabeth to Victoria (1891).
