Joseph Wells (academic) explained

Joseph Wells
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Term Start:	1923
Term End:	1926
Predecessor:	Lewis Richard Farnell
Successor:	Francis William Pember
Birth Date:	1855
Death Date:	1929
Alma Mater:	the Queen's College, Oxford

Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1923 to 1926.^[1]

Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883^[2] and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.^[3]

Selected publications

Articles

• The Persian Friends of Herodotus. 1907. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 27. 37–47. 10.2307/624403. 624403. Wells. J..
• The Genuineness of the Γῆς περίοδος of Hecataeus. The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 29. 1. 1909. 41–52. 10.2307/624641. 624641.
• Cicero and the Conquest of Gaul. The Quarterly Review. October 1918. 230. 361–379.
• Herodotus and Athens. Classical Philology. 23. 4. October 1928. 317–331. 10.1086/361074. Wells. J.. 162214786.

Books

• Oxford and its Colleges, etc.
• A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896)
• Wadham College (1898)
• The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906)
• The Charm of Oxford (1920)
• ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols)
• Studies in Herodotus, 1923

Notes and References

1. Web site: Previous Vice-Chancellors . University of Oxford, UK. July 18, 2011.
2. Wells, Joseph. Who's Who. 1919. 2602.
3. http://www.templestudy.com/2008/06/27/the-degree-ceremonies-of-oxford-university-part-1/ The Degree Ceremonies of Oxford University — Part 1