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British clergyman, classical translator and murderer
John Selby Watson
Works
- The life of George Fox, founder of the Quakers (1860)
- Sir William Wallace, the Scottish hero: a narrative of his life and actions (1861)
- The Life of Richard Porson, M. A. (1861)
- The life of William Warburton, D.D., lord bishop of Gloucester from 1760-1779 (1863)
- The reasoning power in animals (1867)
- Biographies of John Wilkes and William Cobbett (1870)
As translator
- Lucretius On the nature of things. A philosophical poem, in six books (1852) by Lucretius
- Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus, literally translated with copious notes and a general index (1852)
- Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius (1853)
- The Anabasis, Or Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of Socrates (1854) by Xenophon
- Quintilians Institutes Of Oratory: Or Education Of Anorator (1856) by Quintilian
- Cicero on oratory and orators (1860) by Cicero
- The Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus (1870) by Aeschylus
- Lives of the Eminent Commanders (1886) by Cornelius Nepos
- Xenophon's Minor Works (1891) by Xenophon
- Conspiracy of Catiline, and The Jugurthine War (1896) by Sallust
- Abridgement of Roman History by Eutropius
Works about Watson
- "Watson, John Selby," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
- "Watson, Rev. John Selby," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
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