John Wesley Hales

John Wesley Hales (Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, 5 October 1836 - London, 19 May 1914), was a British scholar and man of letters.

[1] He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under George Granville Bradley, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of Wales, New Zealand and Cambridge, and from 1889 to 1893 Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English literature at King's College London.

In May 1901 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

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