William Merry (priest)

William Walter Merry (1835–1918) was an English classical scholar, clergyman, and educator.

[1] William Merry was born in Evesham, Worcestershire, and was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained the Chancellor's Prize for a Latin essay in 1858.

For many years he was engaged in the preparation of editions of the classical authors, published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford.

[3] These included Homer's Odyssey (books i to xii, with James Riddell; second edition, 1886); a school edition of the same books and another of books xiii to xxiv;[4] and a series of editions of the plays of Aristophanes, begun in 1879.

His other works in classical literature are The Greek Dialects (1875) and Selected Fragments of Roman Poetry (second edition, 1901).