About Joseph Wells
Lived 1855 – 1929 (aged 73–74). Joseph Wells was a British writer, classical scholar and historian.
Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1923 to 1926.
Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883 and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.
Selected publications Articles
Books Oxford and its Colleges, etc. A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896) Wadham College (1898) The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906) The Charm of Oxford (1920) ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols) Studies in Herodotus, 1923
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