Benjamin Jowett
(1817-1893), Master of Balliol College, OxfordSitter in 13 portraits
Jowett's name became synonymous with Balliol College, Oxford, which he turned into the leading college in one of Britain's top universities at the height of its world power. Jowett was educated at Balliol where, unusually, he was elected a fellow while still an undergraduate. In 1855 he was appointed to the Regius Professorship of Greek. During his vacations, he undertook a translation of Plato's Dialogues, which was published to great acclaim in 1871. He was elected Master of the college in 1870 and it is chiefly as an outstanding master of Balliol that he is remembered. However, at the end of the twentieth century his translations of Plato's Dialogues, Aristotle's Politics and Thucydides were still in print.
by Harry Furniss
pen and ink, 1880s-1900s
NPG 3475
by Sydney Prior Hall
pencil, published in The Graphic 9 December 1893
NPG 2389
by Thomas & George Shrimpton, after Unknown artist
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
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by Hills & Saunders, after Unknown artist
albumen carte-de-visite, 1860s
NPG Ax18293
Wedding breakfast for Mary Whitall Smith and Frank Costelloe at Balliol Hall
by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, 3 September 1885
NPG Ax160643
by Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1890
NPG x127449
by Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1890
NPG x18962
Benjamin Jowett; Sir Henry Wentworth Acland, 1st Bt
by Henry William Taunt & Co
cabinet card, circa 1890
NPG x5146
by Henry Herschel Hay Cameron (later The Cameron Studio), published by T. Fisher Unwin
photogravure, published 1893
NPG Ax29141
by Francis Holl, after George Richmond
stipple engraving, (circa 1855)
NPG D36745
probably by The Autotype Company, after Désiré François Laugée
collotype, after 1871
NPG D42703
Benjamin Jowett ('Men of the Day. No. 124.')
by Sir Leslie Ward
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 26 February 1876
NPG D43733
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, and Carlo Pellegrini, and Alfred Thompson (Atn), and Sir Leslie Ward, and Théobald Chartran ('T'), and Adriano Cecioni
chromolithographs pasted onto wooden panel, assembled from prints published 1869-1886
NPG D39296
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