Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Rhys, John

​RHYS, John, M.A., born June 21, 1840, at Abercaero, near Ponterwyd, Cardiganshire, was educated at village schools near home; served a pupil teacher's apprenticeship at Penllwyn British School near Aberystwyth from August, 1855, to the end of 1859; was trained at Bangor Normal College to be a public elementary schoolmaster in 1860; and had charge of a school in Anglesey till the end of 1860. He matriculated as a commoner of Jesus College, Oxford, at Michaelmas, 1865, and commenced residence in 1866; read for the classical school and was placed in the second class in Moderations. Subsequently he was placed in the first class in finals at the end of 1869, and was the same week elected a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. He also attended lectures at intervals from 1868 to 1870 at the Sorbonne, the Collége de France, and the University of Heidelberg. In 1870 he matriculated at Leipzig, and read under Professors Curtius, Ritschl, Leskien, and Brockhaus. In 1871 he matriculated at Göttingen, but soon afterwards returned, having been appointed Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools for the counties of Flint and Denbigh in May, 1871. He was appointed Professor of Celtic in the University of Oxford ​in Feb., 1877. In that year he published his "Lectures on Welsh Philology." He had previously been known as a Celtic scholar by his articles in Kuhn's Beiträge zur vergleichenden Sprachforschung, the Revue Celtique, and the Archæologia Cambrensis. Mr. Rhŷs was elected a perpetual member of the Société de Linguistique de Paris in 1873; made a corresponding member of the Dorpat Gelehrten Esthnischen Gesellschaft in 1877; and elected an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, Oct. 30, 1877. He served on Lord Aberdare's Commission appointed in August, 1880, to inquire into the present condition of Intermediate and Higher Education in Wales. In Oct., 1881, he was elected to a Fellowship at Jesus College, and in 1882 a work of his on Celtic Britain was published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

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