Whitley Stokes

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Whitley Stokes

Whitley Stokes (born February 28, 1830 in Dublin , Ireland, † April 13, 1909 in London , England) was an Irish lawyer, scholar and Celtologist .

Life

He was the son of William Stokes (1804-1878) and a grandson of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845) , both physics professors at the University of Dublin . His sister Margaret Stokes was a writer and archaeologist. Stokes attended St. Columba College in Munster . In 1847 he came to Trinity College Dublin , where he graduated in 1851 as a Bachelor of Arts . He worked in London until his departure for India in 1862. In India, he was Secretary to the Governor General of the Legislative Council and then Secretary of the Parliamentary Legislative Department. In 1865 he married Mary Bazely, with whom they had two sons and two daughters. From 1877 to 1882 he was a member of the Law Council of Heads of State and Government, and in 1879 he was appointed President of the Indian Law Commission. In 1882 he traveled back to London and became Governor General of the Legislative Council. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Temple, who died in 1901.

In its founding year 1902 he became a member of the British Academy .

Works

  • Three Irish Glossaries (1862)
  • Gwreans an Bys: the Creation of the World , (1864; translation of William Jordan's Cornish drama (1611))
  • Three Middle-Irish Homilies (1877)
  • Old Irish Glosses at Merzburg and Carlsruhe (1887)
  • Irish texts published at Leipzig (1880–1900), (co-editor: Ernst Windisch )
  • The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887).
  • Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore (1890) (translator); see Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh
  • Original Celtic vocabulary. Vocabulary of the Celtic language unit . Translated and edited v. Adalbert Bezzenberger . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1894 (reprint 1979: ISBN 978-3-525-26404-1 ).
  • Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus. A Collection of Old-Irish Glosses, Scholia, Prose, and Verse . Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin 1901-1903 (reprinted 1987); Associate Editor: John Strachan .

Web links

Commons : Whitley Stokes  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Texts and short biography Whitley Stokes, CELT project
  2. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Stokes, Whitley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish lawyer and scholar
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Dublin , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1909
Place of death London , England