- GB-2014-WSA-16566
- Person
- 1781-1842
SYMMONS, JOHN, elder son of Charles Symmons (qv); b. 1781; adm. 31 Oct 1794 (Clapham) (see also E. B. Impey, Memoirs of Sir Elijah Impey, 1846, 376); Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 11 Apr 1799, aged 18, Canoneer Student; BA 1803; MA 1806; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 21 Jan 1801, called to bar 23 Nov 1807; Welsh Circuit; FRS (by 1831); FSA (by 1831); assisted his father in a revised version of his translation of Virgil, published 1820; his translation of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, published 1824, was much praised; his intimate friend Henry Fynes-Clinton (qv) recorded that Symmons’s extraordinary faculties “qualified him to rise to the very first rank of critical scholars” (Literary Remains, 1854, 10); Dr. Parr also speaks of his “capacious and retentive memory” and of his “various and extensive learning”; d. probably 1842. DNB.