Leonard Whibley

Leonard Whibley
Leonard Whibley, English classical scholar
Born	20 April 1864 Gravesend, Kent, England
Died	8 November 1941 (aged 77) Frensham, Surrey
Other names	Tommy Whibley
Occupation	classical scholar
Spouse(s)	Henriette Leiningen
Parent(s)	Ambrose Whibley and Mary Jean Davy

Leonard Whibley (20 April 1864 – 8 November 1941) was a Greek scholar who edited A Companion to Greek Studies from 1905 to 1931.

Life

Leonard was born 20 April 1864 at Gravesend, Kent, England.^[1] His parents were 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] His elder brother was Charles Whibley who was also educated at Bristol Grammar School and then Jesus College, Cambridge where Charles took a first in classics in 1883.^{[5][6] [7]}

Leonard was a half-brother of Fred Whibley, copra trader, on Niutao, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu); and his half-sister was 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 Methuen and shared a house with his brother Charles Whibley, William Ernest Henley and George Warrington Steevens.^[8] 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,^[9] 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.

Publications

• Political parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Prince Consort Dissertation, Cambridge University Press, 1888.
• Greek Oligarchies. Their Character and Organisation. London: Metheun & Chicago: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. A full-length work on oligarchic government in Classical Greece
• (ed.) A Companion to Greek Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1905-1931.
• (ed. with Paget Toynbee) Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1716–1771), 3 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Repr. 1971 with corrections by H. W. Starr (ed.).

References

1. 1881 British Census information: Birth Year, 1864; Birthplace, Gravesend, Kent, England; Age, 17; Occupation; Scholar; Marital Status ‘U’ (Unmarried)
2. 1881 British Census information: born 1821 Brenchley, Kent, England; Occupation, Silk Mercer; Dwelling, 39 Park St (East) (2 Shops) (Cavendish House); Census Place, Bristol St Augustine, Gloucester, England
3. 1881 British Census information : Birth Year, 1832; Birthplace, Ashwater, Devon, England
4. "Whibley, Leonard (WHBY882L)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
5. "Whibley, Charles (WHBY879C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
6. Literary Encyclopedia article
7. "Charles Whibley, 1859-1930". University of Glasgow - The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
8. Sydney C. Roberts, Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Reference 36852
9. Sydney C. Roberts, Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Reference 36852

External links

• Works by or about Leonard Whibley at Internet Archive
• Works by or about Leonard Whibley in libraries (WorldCat catalog)