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Jelf, William Edward (1811-75), a younger brother of Richard Jelf, distinguished himself at Oxford as a classical scholar. His most important work was his Greek Grammar (1842-5), which went through five editions. He was vicar of Carleton, Yorkshire, from 1849 to 1854, afterwards officiated at Caerleon, near Barmouth, and died at Hastings. He was Bampton Lecturer in 1857, and engaged in much controversy with the ritualists.