Jowett, Benjamin (1817–1893)
| English scholar. He promoted university reform, including the abolition of the theological test for degrees, and translated classical Greek works by Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides. |
| Jowett was ordained in 1842. He became professor of Greek at Oxford University 1855, and master of Balliol College 1870. |
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