James Hildyard, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British classical scholar
Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1809
Date of Death: 27-Aug-1887
Profession: classical scholar
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About James Hildyard
- James Hildyard (11 April 1809 in Winestead – 27 August 1887 in Ingoldsby) was an English classical scholar. Hildyard, eighth son of the Rev.
- William Hildyard, was and educated under Dr.
- Samuel Butler at Shrewsbury from 1820 to 1829.
- From 1826 he was the head of the school, and in April 1829 was the chief person in a rebellion known as the ‘Beef Row.’ In October of the same year he was entered as a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, where, through the influence of Dr.
- John Kaye, he was at once elected to a Tancred divinity studentship, then worth about £113 a year.
- In January 1833 he graduated as a senior optime in mathematics, second in the first class of the classical tripos, and chancellor's medallist, and was immediately elected fellow of his college.
- In due course he became classical lecturer and tutor.
- He proceeded B.A.
- 1833, M.A.
- 1836, and B.D.
- 1846.
- In 1843 he was senior proctor.
- During fourteen years' residence at the university he greatly improved the method of college tuition, and wrote more than one pamphlet against the system of private tuition.
- He wrote and spoke in favour of the ‘voluntary theological examinations.’ He spent some time upon a laborious edition of some of the plays of Plautus, with Latin notes and glossary.
- For two years, 1843 and 1844, he was Cambridge preacher at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, when large congregations were present, and a printed selection from the discourses had a rapid sale.
- About this period he fought the battle of the black gown versus the surplice, his opponent being the Rev.
- Frederick Oakeley, who afterwards went over to the church of Rome.
- His foreign travels included tours in Greece, Smyrna, and Turkey.
- At Athens he caught a fever, and narrowly escaped being bled to death by King Otho's German physician.
- In June 1846 he accepted the college living of Ingoldsby, Lincolnshire.
- He found the church and parsonage in a ruinous condition, but in the course of two or three years he restored the church and built a new rectory.
- He was always a consistent advocate of the revision of the Book of Common Prayer, and printed two octavo volumes on the subject. He died at Ingoldsby on 27 Aug.
- 1887. In 1846 he married the only daughter of George Kinderley of Lincoln's Inn.
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