Bust of Gerald Henry Rendall

Gerald Henry Rendall (1851-1945), Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge was appointed as the first Principal of University College, Liverpool and Gladstone Professor of Classics and Ancient History on 11 June 1881. He was also Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University 1891-1895. Oppressed by administrative chores, Rendall offered his resignation as Principal on 14 December 1892, but the appointment of MacCunn as Vice-Principal and the provision of secretarial assistance kept him at Liverpool until December 1897, when he left to become Headmaster of Charterhouse. Shortly after leaving the University, he was ordained, and on his retirement from Charterhouse in 1911, he settled in Dedham, Essex, where he became an honorary Canon of Chelmsford Cathedral and published a series of books on Shakespeare. He died in 1945, bequeathing to the Library the book collection he had built up in the course of his research on Marcus Aurelius, which culminated in his acclaimed translation of the Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself, with introductory study on stoicism and the last of the Stoics (Macmillan, 1898), and his Shakespeareana collection杰拉尔德·亨利·伦德尔（Gerald Henry Rendall，1851-1945）为剑桥大学三一学院（Trinity College, Cambridge）院士，于1881年6月11日获任命为利物浦大学学院（University College, Liverpool）首任院长，同时就任格莱斯顿古典学与古代史讲席教授（Gladstone Professor of Classics and Ancient History）。他还于1891年至1895年间担任维多利亚大学（Victoria University）副校长。因行政琐事不堪重负，伦德尔于1892年12月14日提交院长一职的辞呈，但随着麦克库恩（MacCunn）被任命为副院长，且校方提供了秘书协助，他得以留任利物浦大学学院至1897年12月，随后离任出任查特豪斯公学（Charterhouse）校长。离开大学教职不久后，他受任圣职；1911年从查特豪斯公学退休后，他在埃塞克斯郡（Essex）迪德哈姆（Dedham）定居，期间出任切姆斯福德大教堂（Chelmsford Cathedral）荣誉圣典吏，并出版了一系列关于莎士比亚的著作。他于1945年逝世，将其研究马可·奥勒留（Marcus Aurelius）期间积累的藏书遗赠给了图书馆，相关研究最终催生了广受好评的《沉思录》译本——《马可·奥勒留·安东尼乌斯自省录》（"Meditations - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to himself"，附斯多葛主义与晚期斯多葛学派导论研究，麦克米兰出版社（Macmillan）1898年版），同时他还留下了自己的莎士比亚藏品（Shakespeareana collection）。