Benjamin Bickley Rogers (11 December 1828 – 22 September 1919) was an English classical scholar.
Rogers was born inShepton Montague,Somerset in 1828.
He was educated atHighgate School andWadham College, Oxford,[1] where he becamePresident of the Oxford Union in 1853. He was elected a Fellow of the college in 1852 and wascalled to the bar in 1856.[1] He gave up a successful legal practice when increasing deafness obliged him to retire.[1]
He then devoted himself exclusively to literature.[1] He translated all the plays ofAristophanes, reproducing the Greek metres in the English version.[1] Some of the comic verses use the metre of theMajor-General's song inGilbert and Sullivan'sPirates of Penzance.
In March 1902 he was elected anHonorary Fellow of Wadham College.[2]
Rogers died inTwickenham on 22 September 1919.[1]
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