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Leonard Whibley, English classical scholar |
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Born | 20 April 1864 Gravesend, Kent, England |
Died | 8 November 1941 Frensham, Surrey |
Other names | Tommy Whibley |
Occupation | classical scholar |
Parents | Ambrose Whibley and Mary Jean Davy |
Leonard Whibley was a Greek scholar who edited ‘A Companion to Greek Studies’ from 1905 to 1931.
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Leonard was born 20 April 1864 at Gravesend, Kent, England,[1] the second son of Ambrose Whibley[2], silk mercer, and his second wife, Mary Jean Davy.[3] Leonard was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and elected to a fellowship at Pembroke in 1889.[4] He was a half-brother of Fred Whibley, copra trader, on Niutao, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu). Half-sister of Eliza Eleanor (Lillie), wife of John T. Arundel, owner of J. T. Arundel and Company which evolved into the Pacific Islands Company, and later the Pacific Phosphate Company, which commenced phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island).
For a short time Leonard Whibley worked in publishing at Metheun and shared a house with his brother Charles Whibley, William Ernest Henley and George Warrington Steevens.[5] Leonard returned to academia with a lectureship in Classics (Ancient History) at Cambridge from 1899 to 1910. Leonard surprised his family and friends, when in 1920 at age 57, he married Henriette Leiningen,[6] daughter of Major-General William Brown Barwell and Lise, Countess of Leiningen Westerburg, a descendent of the "Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg" branch of the House of Leiningen. Leonard died 8 November 1941 at Frensham, Surrey.