From 1898 till the start of World War I, there were a number of cases of "death by Christian Science," which came before coroners and sometimes went to court, though no practitioner was ever convicted. These cases were reported both in medical journals and the popular press. For details, see Claire F. Gartrell-Mills, "Christian Science: an American Religion in Britain, 1895 - 1940" (Ph.D. diss., Oxford, 1991), 210-30. One of the earliest notices in the British Medical Journal tried to sound a warning: "The occurrence in quick succession of two inquests on persons who have died under the so-called 'Christian Science' treatment, has probably made known to many people for the first time the existence in our midst of a system of quackery at once more foolish and more pernicious than any of the many follies and frauds which flourish in rank luxuriance on the 'eternal gullible' in man ... [T]he fact that such a farrago of nonsense is taken seriously by people of education and intelligence almost makes us despair of human progress" ("Christian Science: What It Is," BMJ1898, vol. 2, 1515-16).
Magrath, J. R. (1921). The Queen's College. Vol. II, pp. 334, 341, 343 (fellows); 351, 357 (honours classes). Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Sikes, E. E. (1894). Review of Goodwin, Hymni Homerici. The Classical Review8 (1894): 156-57.
Thompson, E. Maunde (1890). Review of Allen, Notes on Abbreviations in Greek MSS. The Classical Review4:219-20.
Allen, T. W. (1895). "The Text of the Homeric Hymns." The Journal of Hellenic Studies15:137.
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Goodwin was originally appointed Professor of Latin in 1867, but in 1879-80 he was also appointed Professor of Greek. The combined professorships proved too much and he was solely Professor of Greek from 1880-89. He once again tried the combined professorships in 1889, but again it proved too much and led to his premature death a couple of years later. The Latin Chair was filled by the great A. E. Housman; see Richard Perceval Graves, A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet (Faber & Faber, 2014), 82-83; Faculties of Arts and Sciences, Notes and Materials for the History of University College, London, (London: H. K. Lewis, 1898), 18-22.
Allen contributed a small sketch of Monro as a scholar: "What distinguished Monro's Homeric work from that of other Englishmen of his generation was, in the first place, his knowledge of Comparative Grammar or Philology. When he began to write on Homer he was almost alone in this possession, and at his death there are few members of his own University who have a first-hand knowledge of Comparative Philology. ... In these matters his method was very much that of Aristarchus, who, so far as we can gather, did not admit a correction into the Vulgate of his day, unless diplomatic authority could be found for it. Monro, indeed, in many respects, resembled that most judicious of ancient critics. Besides this he was a great exegete, and had a sure knowledge both of Greek and of Homeric usage" (John Cook Wilson, David Binning Monro: A Short Memoir [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907], 15-16). Allen also contributed a couple of paragraphs to Monro's revised entry on Homer for the 11th ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 17:626-39, at 631-32.
Corrections given in Allen, T. W. (1894). "Hymni Homerici (ed. Goodwin, 1893)." The AcademyVol. 46, No. 1168, p. 218. Allen also clarifies some of his editorial activity: "In Mr. Goodwin's edition ... the absence of a record of conjectures is to be taken to imply disapproval of them" (JHS 15 [1895]: 137).
