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John Rhŷs

1840–1915

Celtic scholar. BA, Oxford, 1869; fellow of Merton College, Oxford, 1869. Honorary fellow, Jesus College, Oxford, 1877–81; fellow and bursar, 1881; principal, 1895. Professor of Celtic, Oxford, 1877. His principal interest was Celtic and Welsh philology, but he also worked on ethnology, archaeology, and the history of religion.

Source

ODNB

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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