Author:John Selby Watson

John Selby Watson
(1804–1884)

John Selby Watson

Works

• The life of George Fox, founder of the Quakers (1860)
• Sir William Wallace, the Scottish hero: a narrative of his life and actions (1861)
• The Life of Richard Porson, M. A. (1861)
• The life of William Warburton, D.D., lord bishop of Gloucester from 1760-1779 (1863)
• The reasoning power in animals (1867)
• Biographies of John Wilkes and William Cobbett (1870)

As translator

• Lucretius On the nature of things. A philosophical poem, in six books (1851) by Lucretius IA
• Sallust, Florus, and Velleius Paterculus, literally translated with copious notes and a general index (1852) [1]
  • Historiarum libris duobus (Compendium of the History of Rome) by Marcus Velleius Paterculus
• Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius (1853)
• The Anabasis, Or Expedition of Cyrus, and the Memorabilia of Socrates (1854) by Xenophon
• Quintilians Institutes Of Oratory: Or Education Of Anorator (1856) by Quintilian
• Cicero on oratory and orators (1860) by Cicero
• The Prometheus Vinctus of Aeschylus (1870) by Aeschylus
• Lives of the Eminent Commanders (1886) by Cornelius Nepos
• Xenophon's Minor Works (1891) by Xenophon
• Conspiracy of Catiline, and The Jugurthine War (1896) by Sallust
• Abridgement of Roman History by Eutropius

Works about Watson

• "Watson, John Selby," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Watson, Rev. John Selby," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.