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unusual facts about Benjamin Jowett


Claude Montefiore

He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he obtained a first-class honours degree in the classical final examination, and where he came under the influence of Benjamin Jowett and T. H. Green.


Bristol Medical School

The Library and the Museum were promoters of the scheme for a College of Science which John Percival and Benjamin Jowett were able to translate into University College, Bristol.

Julia Janet Georgiana Abercromby

Her portrait on Benjamin Jowett was thought to very close to life and the letters from Jowett indicate a close friendship although Jowett was a friend of her brother Robert Haldane-Duncan, 3rd Earl of Camperdown.

The Great Jowett

The play chronicles the life of an Oxford don, Benjamin Jowett during the 1800's and his struggles to be a Master for a college whilst translating Plato.


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