Arthur Hugh Clough

Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) was an English poet, a schoolfriend of Matthew Arnold's at Rugby and later his fellow scholar at Oxford, where Clough held an Oriel College fellowship until resigning it in 1848 over doubts about subscribing to the Thirty-Nine Articles. He worked at University Hall in London and then, from 1853, as an examiner in the Education Office, writing in his free hours the poetry — including The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich and Amours de Voyage — for which he is now chiefly remembered. In his last years he thoroughly revised the seventeenth-century translation of Plutarch's Lives known as Dryden's, correcting it against the Greek; published in 1859, his edition remained the standard English Plutarch for the rest of the century. He died in Florence in 1861.