Whitley Stokes

Whitley Stokes ( born February 28, 1830 in Dublin, Ireland, † April 13, 1909 in London, England) was an Irish lawyer, scholar and Keltologe.

Life

He was the son of William Stokes (1804-1878) and a grandson of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), both physics professors at the University of Dublin. His sister Margaret Stokes was a writer and archaeologist. Stokes attended St. Columba College in Munster. In 1847 he came to Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1851 with a Bachelor of Arts. He worked until his departure for India in 1862 in London. In India, he worked as secretary of the Governor General of the Legislative Council and then as secretary of the parliamentary legislative branch ( legislative department). In 1865 he married Mary Bazely, had the two sons and two daughters. From 1877 to 1882 he was then a member of the Legislative Council of Heads of State and Government, where he was in 1879 appointed President of the Indian Law Commission. In 1882, he traveled back to London and became Governor-General of the Legislative Council. In 1884 he married Elizabeth Temple, who died in 1901.

Works

• Three Irish Glossaries (1862 )
• Gwreans to Bys: the Creation of the World, (1864, translation by William Jordan Cornish Drama ( 1611) )
• Three Middle- Irish Homilies (1877 )
• The Anglo - Indian Codes ( 1887).
• Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore ( 1890) (translator ); see Leabhar Mhic Cárthaigh Riabhaigh
• Urkeltischer vocabulary (1894 ), ( co-editor: Adalbert Bezzenberger )
• Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (1901-1903), ( co-editor: John Strachan )