Editing Frederick Apthorp Paley

{{Short description|English classical scholar (1815–1888)}}
'''Frederick Apthorp Paley''' (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar.{{sfn|Phillimore|1911}}

==Life==
Born at [[Easingwold]] in [[Yorkshire]], to Rev. Edmund Paley and Sarah (née Apthorp), he was the grandson of [[William Paley]], and brother of architect E.G. Paley, and was educated at [[Shrewsbury School]] and [[St John's College, Cambridge]] (BA 1838).<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|date=2004-09-23|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21154|pages=ref:odnb/21154|editor-last=Matthew|editor-first=H. C. G.|place=Oxford|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/21154|access-date=2021-01-19|editor2-last=Harrison|editor2-first=B.}}</ref><ref name="ACAD" /> His conversion to [[Roman Catholicism]] forced him to leave [[Cambridge]] in 1846, but he returned in 1860 and resumed his work as "coach," until in 1874 he was appointed by [[Mgr Capel|Mgr Thomas Capel]] as professor of classical literature at the newly founded [[Catholic University College, Kensington|Roman Catholic University]] at [[Kensington]]. This institution was closed in 1877 for lack of funds, and Paley removed to [[Boscombe]], where he lived until his death.

==Works==
His most important editions are:
*[[Aeschylus]], with [[Latin]] notes (1844-1847), the work by which he first attracted attention
*Aeschylus (4th ed., 1879)
*[[Euripides]] (2nd ed., 1872)
*[[Propertius]], ''Carmina. The Elegies of Propertius'', with English notes (2nd ed., 1872), London : Bell & Dandy
*[[Hesiod]] (2nd ed., 1883)
*[[Homer]]'s ''[[Iliad]]'' (2nd ed., 1884)
*[[Sophocles]]' ''Philoctetes'', ''Electra'', ''Trachiniae'', ''Ajax'' (1880)--all with English commentary and forming part of the ''Bibliotheca classica''
*select private orations of [[Demosthenes]] (3rd ed., 1896–1898)
*[[Theocritus]] (2nd ed., 1869), with brief Latin notes, one of the best of his minor works
He possessed considerable knowledge of architecture, and published a ''Manual of Gothic Architecture'' (1846) and ''Manual of Gothic Mouldings'' (1845).

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*{{cite EB1911|wstitle = Paley, Frederick Apthorp|volume=20}}
*{{cite CE1913|wstitle = Frederick Apthorp Paley|volume=11|first= John Swinnerton |last=Phillimore}}
*{{cite ODNB|first=Christopher|last= Collard|title=Paley, Frederick Apthorp (1815–1888)|id=21154}}
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