William Sheldon Hadley
William Sheldon Hadley, LL.D was a British academic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Hadley was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1882, and M.A. in 1885. He became a Fellow of Pembroke in 1882; a Lecturer in Classics in 1884; and Master of Pembroke in 1912.Personal life
He was married to Edith Hadley, the daughter of the Reverend Robert Foster, chaplain to the Royal Hibernian Military School in Dublin. Their elder son, Isaac Peyton Sheldon Hadley, served in the First World War, was awarded a Military Cross, and, having been invalided home to convalesce, died of influenza in October 1918. Their younger son, Patrick Hadley, also served in the War, during which he lost a leg, and went on to become a composer.Works written by W. S. Hadley
- The War List of Pembroke College, 1914-1918, Cambridge University Press, 1922.
Works edited by W. S. Hadley
- The Alcestis of Euripides, Cambridge University Press, 1896.
- The Hecuba of Euripides, Cambridge University Press, 1894.
- Alcestis, Hippolytus, Cambridge University Press, c. 1890.