Leonard Whibley was a Greek scholar who edited ‘A Companion to Greek Studies’ from 1905 to 1931.

Life

Leonard was born 20 April 1864 at Gravesend, Kent, England, the second son of Ambrose Whibley, silk mercer, and his second wife, Mary Jean Davy. Leonard was educated at Bristol Grammar School

Bristol Grammar School

Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England. The school was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne....

 and Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College, Cambridge

Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its...

, and elected to a fellowship at Pembroke in 1889. He was a half-brother of Fred Whibley

Fred Whibley

Fred Whibley abandoned a career in a London bank to escape from the constraints and social expectations of respectability in the Victorian era...

, copra trader, on Niutao

Niutao

Niutao is a reef island in the northern part of Tuvalu. It is one of the nine districts of Tuvalu, and one of the three who consist of only one island, not counting the three islets inside the closed lagoon. Niutao has a population of 663 .-Geography:There are two lakes , which are brackish to...

, Ellice Islands (now Tuvalu

Tuvalu

Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls...

). Half-sister of Eliza Eleanor (Lillie), wife of John T. Arundel

John T. Arundel

John T. Arundel was an entrepreneur who was instrumental in the development of the mining of phosphate rock on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Banaba ....

, owner of J. T. Arundel and Company which evolved into the Pacific Islands Company, and later the Pacific Phosphate Company, which commenced phosphate mining in Nauru

Nauru

Nauru , officially the Republic of Nauru and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia in the South Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, to the east. Nauru is the world's smallest republic, covering just...

 and Banaba Island

Banaba Island

Banaba Island , an island in the Pacific Ocean, is a solitary raised coral island west of the Gilbert Island chain and 300 km east of Nauru. It is part of the Republic of Kiribati. It has an area of 6.5 km², and the highest point on the island is also the highest point in Kiribati, at 81...

 (Ocean Island).

For a short time Leonard Whibley worked in publishing at Metheun and shared a house with his brother Charles Whibley

Charles Whibley

Charles Whibley was an English literary journalist and author. Whibley’s style was described by Matthew as “often acerbic high-tory commentary”.-Life:...

, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley was an English poet, critic and editor, best remembered for his 1875 poem "Invictus".-Life and career:...

 and George Warrington Steevens

George Warrington Steevens

George Warrington Steevens, usually credited as G.W. Steevens, , was a British journalist and writer.Steevens was born in Sydenham, and educated at the City of London School and Balliol College, Oxford...

. Leonard returned to academia with a lectureship in Classics (Ancient History) at Cambridge from 1899 to 1910. Leonard surprised his family and friends, when in 1920 at age 57, he married Henriette Leiningen, daughter of Major-General William Brown Barwell and Lise, Countess of Leiningen Westerburg, a descendent of the "Alt-Leiningen-Westerburg" branch of the House of Leiningen. Leonard died 8 November 1941 at Frensham

Frensham

Frensham is a village in Surrey, England, beside the A287, south west of Guildford. Neighbouring villages include Millbridge, Shortfield Common, Dockenfield, Spreakley, Batt's Corner and Rushmoor. Frensham lies on the River Wey. Farnham is the nearest main town and it is to the north. The...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

.

Publications

• Political parties in Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Prince Consort Dissertation, Cambridge University Press, 1888.
• Greek Oligarchies. Their Character and Organisation. London: Metheun & Chicago: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896. A full-length work on oligarchic government in Classical Greece
• (ed.) A Companion to Greek Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1905-1931.
• (ed. with Paget Toynbee
  Paget Toynbee
  Paget Jackson Toynbee was a UK Dante scholar. Robert Hollander has described Toynbee as 'the most influential Dantean scholar of his time'.-Works:*The Letters of Horace Walpole. 16 volumes....
  
  ) Correspondence of Thomas Gray (1716–1771), 3 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935. Repr. 1971 with corrections by H. W. Starr (ed.).