Stone, W. H. Not identified. "The Nineveh Bull" [II, 468–69. Feb. 8, 1851] is a soliloquy in which the bull, one of the Assyrian statues excavated by Austen Henry Layard and sent to England in 1850, tells of his birth, of the civilizations that he has seen rise and fall, and of his being transported to a strange land, far from his native realm. The writer is thoroughly familiar with ancient history.

      More than one W. H. Stone flourished in the mid-century: William Henry Stone, 1799–1863: Admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1817. Admitted at Middle Temple, 1820; called to bar, 1825. Commissioner in bankruptcy (Alumni Cantab.).
      William Henry Stone, 1830–1891: As a boy took to classics with avidity; was brilliant student. B.A. Oxford 1852; M.A. 1855. Studied at St. Thomas's Hospital; M.R.C.S., F.R.C.S., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.P. Lectured and wrote papers and books on medicine, physics, music (Plarr's Lives).
      William Henry Stone, d. 1896: Admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1853, age nineteen; B.A. (30th Wrangler, 8th Classic) 1857; M.A. 1860. Director of London and County Banking Co.; M.P. for Portsmouth, 1865–74 (Alumni Cantab.).
      William Henry Stone, 1838–1863: Admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1858; Browne Scholar; B.A. (6th Classic) 1862. In 1862–63 compiled notes to Martial's epigrams, which appeared in F. A. Paley's edition of the Epigrams, 1868 (Alumni Cantab.).
      "The Nineveh Bull" was included in the Putnam volume of selections from H.W.: Home and Social Philosophy, 2nd ser.

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971