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data-file-height="413" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">34th <a href="/wiki/Provost_of_Trinity_College_Dublin" class="mw-redirect" title="Provost of Trinity College Dublin">Provost of Trinity College Dublin</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />17 October 1914 – 30 July 1919</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546" /></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Traill_(college_provost)" title="Anthony Traill (college provost)">Anthony Traill</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Bernard_(bishop)" title="John Bernard (bishop)">John Bernard</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">John Pentland Mahaffy</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1839-02-26</span>)</span>26 February 1839<br /><a href="/wiki/Vevey" title="Vevey">Vevey</a>, Switzerland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 April 1919<span style="display:none">(1919-04-30)</span> (aged 80)<br /><a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>, Ireland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Frances Letitia MacDougall <span style="font-size:85%;">(m. 1865; d. 1908)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">4</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a> (B.A., 1859)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir John Pentland Mahaffy</b> (26 February 1839 – 30 April 1919) was an Irish classicist and <a href="/wiki/Polymath" title="Polymath">polymathic</a> scholar who served as the 34th <a href="/wiki/Provost_of_Trinity_College_Dublin" class="mw-redirect" title="Provost of Trinity College Dublin">Provost of Trinity College Dublin</a> from 1914 to 1919.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born near <a href="/wiki/Vevey" title="Vevey">Vevey</a> in Switzerland on 26 February 1839, to Irish parents, Nathaniel Brindley Mahaffy and the former Elizabeth Pentland, receiving his early education privately in <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, and later and more formally at <a href="/wiki/Trinity_College_Dublin" title="Trinity College Dublin">Trinity College Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As an undergraduate, he became President of the <a href="/wiki/University_Philosophical_Society" title="University Philosophical Society">University Philosophical Society</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/List_of_Scholars_of_Trinity_College_Dublin" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Scholars of Trinity College Dublin">elected a scholar</a> in 1857, graduated in classics and philosophy in 1859, and was elected a fellow in 1864. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mahaffy held a chair in Ancient History at Trinity from 1871, and eventually became <a href="/wiki/List_of_Provosts_of_Trinity_College_Dublin" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Provosts of Trinity College Dublin">Provost</a> in 1914, at the age of 75.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a distinguished classicist and <a href="/wiki/Papyrology" title="Papyrology">papyrologist</a> as well as a Doctor of Music. He wrote the music for the Grace in chapel. Mahaffy, a man of great versatility, published numerous works across a range of subjects, some of which, especially those dealing with the 'Silver Age' of Greece, became standard authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He was <a href="/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_County_Monaghan" class="mw-redirect" title="High Sheriff of County Monaghan">High Sheriff of County Monaghan</a> for 1900 and a <a href="/wiki/Justice_of_the_Peace" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice of the Peace">Justice of the Peace</a> for county Dublin. He was President of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Irish_Academy" title="Royal Irish Academy">Royal Irish Academy</a> from 1911 to 1916.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Famous_wit">Famous wit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Famous wit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was regarded as one of <a href="/wiki/Dublin" title="Dublin">Dublin</a>'s great curmudgeons and also one of its greatest wits. When aspiring to be Provost of Trinity College, upon hearing that the incumbent was ill, he is said to have remarked, "Nothing trivial, I hope?" In his academic years, perhaps his most notable student was <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Wilde" title="Oscar Wilde">Oscar Wilde</a>, with whom he discussed homosexuality in ancient Greece, and with whom he also collaborated in writing Mahaffy's book <i>Social Life in Greece</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although he later expressed reservations about Mahaffy, Wilde nonetheless described him as "my first and best teacher" and "the scholar who showed me how to love Greek things".<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When Wilde went on to achieve fame and success, Mahaffy boasted of having created him, only to later describe Wilde as "the only blot on my tutorship".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEEllmann198827_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEEllmann198827-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like his protégés, Wilde and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Gogarty" class="mw-redirect" title="Oliver Gogarty">Oliver Gogarty</a>, Mahaffy was a brilliant conversationalist, coming out with such gems as "in Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs." When asked, by an advocate of <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_rights" title="Women's rights">women's rights</a>, what the difference was between a man and a woman he replied, "I can't conceive." He was apparently opposed to <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholics" title="Irish Catholics">Irish Catholics</a> accessing higher education; Gerald Griffin records Mahaffy as saying "<a href="/wiki/James_Joyce" title="James Joyce">James Joyce</a> is a living argument in defence of my contention that it was a mistake to establish <a href="/wiki/University_College_Dublin" title="University College Dublin">a separate university</a> for the aborigines of this island – for the corner boys who spit into the <a href="/wiki/River_Liffey" title="River Liffey">Liffey</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Frame"><a href="/wiki/File:John_Pentland_Mahaffy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/John_Pentland_Mahaffy.jpg" decoding="async" width="173" height="221" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="173" data-file-height="221" /></a><figcaption>Portrait by Walter Osborne (ca. 1918)</figcaption></figure> <p>Politically, Mahaffy was a staunch <a href="/wiki/Unionism_in_Ireland" title="Unionism in Ireland">unionist</a> who in 1899 tried to have the <a href="/wiki/Irish_language" title="Irish language">Irish language</a> removed from the national Intermediate curriculum on the grounds that there was no literature in the language that was not "religious, immoral or indecent". In 1914, he suppressed the university's Gaelic Society when it proposed to mark the centenary of the birth of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Davis_(Young_Irelander)" title="Thomas Davis (Young Irelander)">Thomas Osborne Davis</a> with a gathering that was to be addressed by <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Pearse" title="Patrick Pearse">Patrick Pearse</a>, who at the time was campaigning against the recruitment of Irish soldiers to serve in the British armed forces during <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, whereas Mahaffy was vigorously in favour of all possible support for the British war effort. Additionally, Mahaffy was greatly worried by the prospect of the <a href="/wiki/Partition_of_Ireland" title="Partition of Ireland">partition of Ireland</a>, and during the <a href="/wiki/Irish_Convention" title="Irish Convention">Irish Convention</a> of 1917-18, he proposed a federalist <a href="/wiki/Irish_Home_Rule_movement" title="Irish Home Rule movement">Home Rule</a> arrangement in Ireland, based on the <a href="/wiki/Cantons_of_Switzerland" title="Cantons of Switzerland">Swiss cantons</a>’ model, with parliaments in each of the provinces sending representatives to a central assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mahaffy also had a reputation as a snob. For instance, he had a great admiration for the nobility and would often prefer the company of dukes and kings. When he moved into Earlscliffe (a house on the <a href="/wiki/Hill_of_Howth" class="mw-redirect" title="Hill of Howth">Hill of Howth</a>, County Dublin) as his summer residence, a wag at the time suggested that maybe it had better be renamed Dukescliffe.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Curmudgeon and snob though he could undoubtedly be, Mahaffy was also capable of great and spontaneous kindness, as is evident from the instance of the schoolboy whom Mahaffy came upon near the Hill of Howth, where the boy was reading Greek. Mahaffy asked him about his studies, later lent him books to assist him, and eventually saw to it that the young man was admitted free of charge to read Classics at Trinity College Dublin.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mahaffy's paternal ancestry could be traced back to the south of <a href="/wiki/County_Donegal" title="County Donegal">County Donegal</a>, where his great-grandfather owned land. His grandfather and father were also <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Ireland" title="Church of Ireland">Church of Ireland</a> clergymen.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1865, Mahaffy married Frances Letitia MacDougall (d. 1908), by whom he had two daughters, Rachel Mary (d. 1944) and Elsie (d. 1926), and two sons, Arthur William (d. 1919) and Robert Pentland (d. 1943).<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He travelled widely, to destinations such as <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egypt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nubia" title="Nubia">Nubia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="United States of America">United States of America</a>. Despite his ordination as a clergyman, he was knighted in 1918, shortly before his death. </p><p>His interests were not confined to academia: he shot and played cricket for Ireland, and claimed to know the pedigree of every racehorse in Ulster. He was also an expert <a href="/wiki/Fly_fishing" title="Fly fishing">fly fisherman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also instrumental in setting up a Georgian Society for the appreciation of Irish <a href="/wiki/Georgian_architecture" title="Georgian architecture">Georgian architecture</a>; this functioned from 1908 to 1913. </p><p>In 1889, with his friend <a href="/wiki/James_Edward_Rogers" title="James Edward Rogers">James Edward Rogers</a> Mahaffy published <i>Sketches from a tour through Holland and Germany</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The memory of many of Mahaffy's accomplishments was preserved thanks to the efforts of <a href="/wiki/R._B._McDowell" title="R. B. McDowell">R. B. McDowell</a>, who together with <a href="/wiki/W._B._Stanford" class="mw-redirect" title="W. B. Stanford">W. B. Stanford</a> published <i>Mahaffy: A Biography of an Anglo-Irishman</i> (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971). </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sealawn,_Sutton.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png/220px-Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png/330px-Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png/440px-Sealawn%2C_Sutton.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Sealawn House in Sutton, Dublin</figcaption></figure> <p>Mahaffy had a Dublin townhouse at 38 <a href="/wiki/North_Great_George%27s_Street" title="North Great George's Street">North Great George's Street</a> and another overlooking Dublin bay at Sealawn in <a href="/wiki/Sutton,_Dublin" title="Sutton, Dublin">Sutton, Dublin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Among Mahaffy's most notable works are </p> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009261192"><i>Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander</i></a> (1874; 7th edition, 1890);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000649817"><i>Rambles and Studies in Greece</i></a> (1876);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008628243"><i>History of Classical Greek Literature</i></a> (1880; 4th edition, 1903);<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001384338"><i>Descartes</i></a> (1880, reprint 1896, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/descartes00mahauoft#page/n5/mode/2up">online</a>)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001227482"><i>Greek Life and Thought from Alexander to the Roman Conquest</i></a> (1887; 2nd edition, 1896);</li> <li><i>The Story of Alexander's Empire</i> (1887, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/storyofalexander00mahauoft#page/n9/mode/2up">online</a>);</li> <li><i>Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers</i> (1889, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/kantscriticalph02mahagoog#page/n5/mode/2up">online</a>)</li> <li><i>The Greek World under Roman Sway from Polybius to Plutarch</i> (1890, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/stream/greekworldunderr00maha#page/n5/mode/2up">online</a>);</li> <li><i>The Flinders Petrie Papyri</i>, with Transcriptions, Commentaries and Index, I-II (1891–1893); <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011743128">II-III (1893–1895)</a>;</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000574358"><i>Problems in Greek History</i></a>(1892);<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001607790"><i>The Empire of the Ptolemies</i></a> (1895);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100336510"><i>A History of Egypt under the Ptolemaic Dynasty</i></a> (1899);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001976077"><i>An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin, its Foundation and early Fortunes, 1591–1660</i></a> (1903);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001452993"><i>The Particular Book of Trinity College, Dublin</i></a> (1904);</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000572400"><i>The Silver Age of the Greek World</i></a> (1906);</li> <li><i>The Plate in Trinity College, Dublin. A History and a Catalogue</i> (1918).</li></ul> <p>His translation of <a href="/wiki/Kuno_Fischer" title="Kuno Fischer">Kuno Fischer</a>'s Commentary on <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Kant</a> (1866) and his own exhaustive analysis, with elucidations, of Kant's critical philosophy are also highly regarded. He also edited the <i>Petrie papyri</i> in the <i>Cunningham Memoirs</i> (vols. VIII (1891), IX (1893), XI (1905)).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChisholm1911-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Pentland_Mahaffy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Schema_(Kant)" title="Schema (Kant)">Schema (Kant)</a></li> <li>Oscar Wilde's review of Mahaffy's book "Greek Life and Thought: from the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest" in the Pall Mall Gazette, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14240/14240-h/14240-h.htm"><i>Mr. Mahaffy's New Book</i></a>, 9 November 1887. 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