George Frederick Holmes
George Frederick Holmes (1820 – 1897) was the first Chancellor of the University of Mississippi, from 1848 to 1849.[1][2][3]
Biography
George Frederick Holmes was born in 1820 in Georgetown, British Guyana.[1] In 1836, he attended the University of Durham in England, but left for Quebec in 1837 without taking a degree.[2][3]
In 1838, he taught in Caroline County, Virginia, United States, then moved to Macon, Georgia to study and teach Law.[2] In 1840, he moved to South Carolina and became a lawyer, first in Walterboro, then in Orangeburg.[2]
In 1845, he became a Professor of Ancient Languages at Richmond College, now known as the University of Richmond.[2][3] In 1847, he became Professor of History and Political Economy at the College of William and Mary.[2][3] From 1848 to 1849, he served as the first President of the University of Mississippi, where he also taught.[2][3] In 1857, he became a Professor at the University of Virginia.[2][3]
He wrote articles for the Southern Quarterly Review, the Southern Literary Messenger, DeBow's Review, and the Methodist Quarterly Review.[2][3] He corresponded with Auguste Comte and John C. Calhoun.[3] He supported state rights, African-American slavery, and an end to tariffs.[3][4]
He died in Charlottesville in 1897.[2]
Bibliography
- The Southern Pictorial Primer, or First-Fifth Reader (1866)
- A School History of the United States of America, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Year 1870 (1871)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 University of Mississippi biography
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 American National Biography Online
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 First Principals Journal
- ↑ Susuan V. Donaldson, 'Introduction', in I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, 75th Anniversary Edition, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006, p. x
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Chancellors of the University of Mississippi 1848-1849 |
Succeeded by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet |
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