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Arber was born in London. From 1854 be 1878 he worked as a clerk in the Admiralty; from 1878 to 1881 he lectured in English, under Prof. H. Morley, at University College, London; and from 1881 to 1894 he was professor of English at Mason College, Birmingham . From 1894 he lived in London as emeritus professor, being also a fellow of King's College, London. In 1905 he received the honorary degree of D. Litt. from the University of Oxford. He married in 1869, and had two sons, one of whom, E. A. N. Arber, became demonstrator in paleobotany at the University of Cambridge.

As a scholarly editor, Professor Arber's services to English literature are memorable. His name is associated particularly with the series of " English Reprints " (1868-1880), by which an accurate text of the works of many English authors, formerly only accessible in more expensive editions, was placed within reach of the general public. Among the thirty volumes of the series were Stephen Gosson's School of Abuse, Roger Ascham's Toxophilus, Tottel's MiscellanySonges and Sonettes, written by the rhyght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other usually called Tottel's Miscellany was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editi, and Robert NauntonSir Robert Naunton ( 1563 March 27, 1635), was an English politician and writer. The son of Henry Naunton of Alderton, Suffolk, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming a fellow of his college in 1585 and public orator of the university in's Fragmenta Regalia. It was followed by the "English Scholar's Library" (16 volumes) which included the Works (1884) of Captain John SmithJohn Smith ( 1580- 1631) was an English soldier and sailor, now chiefly remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English colony in North America, and his brief association with the Native American princess Pocahontas. Smith was born in, governor of VirginiaVirginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia it is one of four Commonwealth, and the Poems (1882) of Richard BarnfieldRichard Barnfield ( 1574- 1627), English poet, was born at Norbury, Staffordshire, and baptized on June 13, 1574. His obscure though close relationship with Shakespeare has long made him interesting to students. In November 1589 Barnfield matriculated at.

In his English Garner (24 vols. 1877-1896) he made an admirable collection of rare old tracts and poems; in 1899-1901 he issued British Anthologies , and in 1907 began a series called A Christian Library . to also accomplished single-handed the editing of two vast, and of valuable, English bibliographies: A Transcript of the Registers of the Stationers' Company, 1553-1640 (1875-1894), and The Term Catalogues, 1668-1709.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 1911 Britannica