Harrow in 1850,
and was soon known in Oxford as the most daring and most high-spirited
undergraduate of his time. He was a universal favourite, a delightful
companion, a brilliant scholar and the playful enemy of all "dons." In
1851 he won the Chancellor's prize for Latin verse, and it is said that
the entire exercise was written in an afternoon, when his friends had
locked him into his rooms, declining to let him out till he had finished
what they were confident would prove the prize poem. A year later he
took his name off the books, to avoid the consequences of a college
escapade, and migrated to Christ's College, Cambridge. Here he was again
successful in Latin verse, and remains the unique example of an
undergraduate who has won the Chancellor's prize at both universities.
In 1856 he took second place in the first class in the Classical Tripos.
He was elected fellow of Christ's (1858), published _Verses and
Translations_ in 1862, and was called to the bar in 1865. Owing to an
accident while skating he was prevented from following up a professional
career, and during the last years of his life he was an invalid. His
_Translations into English and Latin_ appeared in 1866; his _Theocritus
translated into English Verse_ in 1869; _Fly Leaves_ in 1872; and
_Literary Remains_ in 1885. He died on the 17th of February 1884.
Calverley was one of the most brilliant men of his day; and, had he
enjoyed health, might have achieved distinction in any career he chose.
Constitutionally indolent, he was endowed with singular gifts in every
department of culture; he was a scholar, a musician, an athlete and a
brilliant talker. What is left us marks only a small portion of his
talent, but his sparkling, dancing verses, which have had many clever
imitators, are still without a rival in their own line. His humour was
illumined by good nature; his satire was keen but kind; his laughter was
of that human sort which is often on the verge of tears. Imbued with the
classical spirit, he introduced into the making of light verse the
polish and elegance of the great masters, and even in its most whimsical
mood his verse is raised to the level of poetry by the saving excellence
of style.

His _Complete Works_, with a biographical notice by Sir W.J. Sendall,
appeared in 1901. (A. Wa.)

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well-known landscape-painter; Edward (1803-1883), an important
wood-engraver and