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Biography
Edward Daniel Stone (1832 – September 17, 1916) was an ordained deacon, classical scholar and a schoolmaster at Eton College.
Early life
He was the son of Lucia Catherine Stone (née Roswell) and Joseph Stone, who worked in Dorchester, Dorset as the town clerk. His siblings were Walter George Boswell Stone, an antiquarian; William Harry Stone, and Edith Stone.
He attended Eton College beginning in 1845 and in 1856 he received a BA from King's College, Cambridge. Three years later he received his Masters' degree at Cambridge. From 1855 until 1862, he was a Fellow of King's. In 1860, he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England.
Career
Educator
Beginning in 1857, he was assistant master at Eton, a position he held for about 27 years. His students included Sir Henry Babington Smith and Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise. On November 20, 1873, he was admitted into the Chemical Society.
Reilly stated that in 1884, he established a school in Broadstairs, Kent in Stone House and operated the school until 1895. Stone moved to Abingdon, Berkshire after retirement in 1898, living with his son Rev. Francis Joseph (Frank) Stone, who was the Science Master at Radley College.
Author
He was the author of The Field of Rivalry: An Heroic Poem, in four books, written in the 1850s. Stone published Dorica, a volume of poems, four of which were in Dorset dialect. The volume was inspired by poet William Barnes. In 1912, Stone published Herbert Kynaston: A Short Memoir with Selections from His Occasional Writings a memoir of Herbert Kynaston (1809–1878), prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral and High Master of St Paul's School, London.
Personal life
In August 1861, he married Elizabeth Theresa "Lily" Vidal, the only daughter of the Rev. Francis Furse Vidal and Mary Theresa Vidal (née Johnson). She was born in 1841 in New South Wales and died in 1898.
Their ten children included Lucy, Frank, Ned, Ruth, William Johnson, Faith, and Christopher Reynolds Stone. They adopted Nelly Stone.
During his life, Stone corresponded with his son-in-law Compton Mackenzie, Scottish nationalist and writer who married Faith; Robert Bridges, Britain's poet laureate; and A. C. Benson, English author and academic.
Stone died on September 17, 1916 at Radley College.
Works
He was a Greek and Latin scholar. Among others he published:
- The Hannibalian Or Second Punic War, 1881
- Ionides: Exercises in Greek Iambics, 1883
- Selection from the Greek tragedians, 1890
- Tu Es Petrus. An Examination of Two Passages in S. Matthew's Gospel, and of the Doctrine of the Real Presence, 1909
- Florilegium Latinum; Translations Into Latin Verse, with Francis St John Thackeray, 1923