WILLIAM YOUNG SELLAR BIOGRAPHY
WILLIAM YOUNG SELLAR BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
SELLAR, WILLIAM YOUNG (1825-1890). —Scholar, born in Sutherlandshire, his f. being factor to the Duke of Sutherland, ed. at Glasgow Univ. and Oxf., became in 1859 Prof. of Greek at St. Andrews and, in 1863, of Latin at Edin. He pub. a work on the Roman Poets of the Republic (1863), followed by The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age . Both of these hold a high place among modern works of scholarship.