Duport, James, Dd

Duport, James, D.D.

son of the following, a learned Grsecist, was born in 1606; educated at Westminster school and Trinity College; became professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1632; prebend in Lincoln Cathedral in 1641; dean of Peterborough in 1664; master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, in 1668; rector of Aston-Flamville and Burbach about 1672, and died July 17, 1679, leaving numerous classical works on ancient literature, for which see Chalmers, Biog; Dict. s.v.