William Gunion Rutherford
- William Gunion Rutherford
William Gunion Rutherford (17 July, 1853 – 19 July, 1907) was a Scottish scholar.
He was born in Peeblesshire and educated at St Andrews and Oxford, where he graduated in natural science, with a view to following the medical profession, which he abandoned in favour of a scholastic career. From 1883 to 1901 he was Head Master of Westminster School; and his death deprived classical scholarship in the UK of one of its most brilliant modern representatives.
Rutherford devoted special attention to Attic Greek idioms and the language of Aristophanes.
His most important work, "New Phrynichus" (1882), dealing with the Atticisms of Phrynichus Arabius, was supplemented by his "Babrius" (1883), a specimen of the later Greek language, which was the chief subject of Christian August Lobeck's earlier commentary (1820) on Phrynichus.
His edition (1896-1905) of the "Aristophanic scholia" from the Ravenna manuscript was less successful.
Mention may also be made of his "Elementary Greek Accidence" and "Lex Rex", a list of cognate words in Greek, Latin and English.
He died 2 days after his 54th birthday.
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