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Leonard Whibley was a Greek scholar who edited ''A Companion to Greek Studies'' from 1905 to 1931. ==Life== Leonard was born 20 April 1864 at Gravesend, Kent, England.〔1881 British Census information: Birth Year, 1864; Birthplace, Gravesend, Kent, England; Age, 17; Occupation; Scholar; Marital Status ‘U’ (Unmarried)〕 His parents were Ambrose Whibley,〔1881 British Census information: born 1821 Brenchley, Kent, England; Occupation, Silk Mercer; Dwelling, 39 Park St (East) (2 Shops) (Cavendish House); Census Place, Bristol St Augustine, Gloucester, England〕 silk mercer, and his second wife, Mary Jean Davy.〔1881 British Census information : Birth Year, 1832; Birthplace, Ashwater, Devon, England〕 Leonard was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge, and elected to a fellowship at Pembroke in 1889. His elder brother was Charles Whibley who was also educated at Bristol Grammar School and then Jesus College, Cambridge where Charles took a first in classics in 1883.〔(Literary Encyclopedia article )〕 Leonard was a half-brother of Fred Whibley, copra trader, on Niutao, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu); and his half-sister was Eliza Eleanor (Lillie), wife of John T. Arundel, owner of J. T. Arundel and Company which evolved into the Pacific Islands Company, and later the Pacific Phosphate Company, which commenced phosphate mining in Nauru and Banaba Island (Ocean Island). For a short time Leonard Whibley worked in publishing at Metheun and shared a house with his brother Charles Whibley, William Ernest Henley and George Warrington Steevens.〔Sydney C. Roberts, Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Reference 36852〕 Leonard returned to academia with a lectureship in Classics (Ancient History) at Cambridge from 1899 to 1910. Leonard surprised his family and friends, when in 1920 at age 57, he married Henriette Leiningen,〔Sydney C. Roberts, Mark Pottle, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Reference 36852〕 daughter of Major-General William Brown Barwell and Lise, Countess of Leiningen Westerburg, a descendent of the "Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg" branch of the House of Leiningen. Leonard died 8 November 1941 at Frensham, Surrey.
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