Joseph Wells (academic)

For other people named Joseph Wells, see Joseph Wells (disambiguation).

Joseph Wells
Joseph Wells, 1924, by Glyn Philpot
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
In office 1923–1926
Preceded by	Lewis Richard Farnell
Succeeded by	Francis William Pember
Personal details
Born	1855
Died	1929
Alma mater	the Queen's College, Oxford

Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as vice-chancellor from 1923 to 1926.^[1]

Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883^[2] and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.^[3]

Selected publications

Articles

• Wells, J. (1907). "The Persian Friends of Herodotus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 27: 37–47. doi:10.2307/624403. JSTOR 624403.
• "The Genuineness of the Γῆς περίοδος of Hecataeus". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 29 (1): 41–52. 1909. doi:10.2307/624641. JSTOR 624641.
• "Cicero and the Conquest of Gaul". The Quarterly Review. 230: 361–379. October 1918.
• Wells, J. (October 1928). "Herodotus and Athens". Classical Philology. 23 (4): 317–331. doi:10.1086/361074. S2CID 162214786.

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

References

1. "Previous Vice-Chancellors". University of Oxford, UK. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
2. "Wells, Joseph". Who's Who: 2602. 1919.
3. The Degree Ceremonies of Oxford University — Part 1.

External links

• Works by Joseph Wells at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Joseph Wells at the Internet Archive

Academic offices
Preceded by Patrick Arckley Wright-Henderson	Warden of Wadham College, Oxford 1913–1927	Succeeded by John Frederick Stenning
Preceded by Lewis Richard Farnell	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1923–1926	Succeeded by Francis William Pember