John Conington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Conington

British classical scholar

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1825

Place of Birth: Boston, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 23-Oct-1869

Profession: translator, classical scholar, classical philologist

Zodiac Sign: Leo

John Conington (10 August 1825 – 23 October 1869) was an English classical scholar.
In 1866 he published his best-known work, the translation of the Aeneid of Virgil into the octosyllabic metre of Walter Scott.
He was Corpus Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1854 till his death.