James Scholefield was born at
Henley-on-Thames on 15 November 1789. He was educated at
Christ's Hospital and
Trinity College, Cambridge, and was in 1825 appointed professor of Greek in the university. He was for some time curate to
Charles Simeon, the evangelical churchman, and his low church views involved him in disputes with his own parishioners at St Michael's, Cambridge, of which he was
perpetual curate from 1823 till his death at
Hastings on 4 April 1853. From 1849 until his death he was canon of
Ely. Scholefield was an excellent teacher. His most useful work was his edition of the
Adversaria of
PP Dobree, his predecessor in the chair of
Greek. He also published editions of
Aeschylus (1828), in which he dealt very conservatively with the text, and of
Porson's four plays of
Euripides. His
Hints for an improved Translation of the New Testament met with considerable success. He was one of the examiners in the first
Classical Tripos (1824). The Scholefield Theological Prize at Cambridge was established in commemoration of him in 1856. ==Other works==