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lives of Plutarch, with notes), 1844–8, 12mo. 10. ‘Political Dictionary’ (articles from the ‘Penny Cyclopædia,’ edited, with additions and corrections, by G. L.), 1845–6, 8vo. 11. ‘France and its Revolutions. A Pictorial History,’ London, 1850, 8vo. 12. Cicero's ‘Cato Major … Lælius … et Epistolæ Selectæ’ (Grammar School Classics, 1850, 1853, 8vo). 13. Cæsar's ‘Gallic War,’ with notes (Grammar School Classics), 1853, 1859. 14. Sallust's ‘Catiline and Jugurtha’ (Grammar School Classics), 1860, 1884, 8vo. 15. ‘An Old Man's Thoughts about Many Things,’ 1862, 8vo; 1872, 8vo (the style recalls Long's ‘vigorous, discursive, and pungent, but always profitable’ conversation). 16. Contributions to Smith's ‘Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography;’ to the ‘Classical Museum,’ vols. i–v. 1844–8; to Bell's ‘English Journal of Education,’ vols. iii–viii. 1849–1854; to the ‘Quarterly Journal of Education’ (some reprinted in ‘The Schoolmaster,’ 1836); and papers published for the Central Society of Education, London, 1838–9.

[The best account of Long is Mr. H. J. Mathews's In Memoriam, the author of which has kindly revised this article: George Long, reprinted from the Brighton College Magazine, 1879; English Cyclopædia, art. ‘G. Long;’ Encyclopædia Britannica, art. ‘G. Long,’ by H. J. M.; Academy, 23 Aug. 1879, p. 140; Athenæum, 23 Aug. 1879, pp. 239–40; Brit. Mus. Cat.]  LONG, JAMES (1617–1692), royalist, only son of Sir Walter Long of Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire, by his first wife, Lady Anne Ley, second daughter of James, first earl of Marlborough, and nephew of Sir Robert Long [q. v.], was born at South Wraxhall, Wiltshire, and baptised at Bradford in 1617 (Pedigree, &c., Misc. Geneal. et Herald,new ser.iii. 68). After education at home and in France (not, as Aubrey affirms, at Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford), Long appears to have entered the royal army, and is probably the Captain Long who at the beginning of the civil war was serving in Sir Thomas Glemham's regiment (, Army Lists, p. 12). By 1644 he had risen to the rank of a colonel of horse in Sir F. Dodington's brigade, and was in that year appointed sheriff of Wiltshire in the king's interest. Early in 1645 he escorted the Prince of Wales to Bristol, and was leisurely returning eastwards when he was, on 12 March 1645, overtaken by a superior force of parliamentarians under Waller and Cromwell at Devizes. He fell rapidly back towards Bath, hotly pursued by Waller. Near Potterne he was intercepted by Cromwell, who suddenly appeared in his van with an advance guard, and the high thick-set hedges prevented his escape. Long himself was captured, and of his four hundred horse only some thirty succeeded in getting away (cf. Waller's account given in Studies and Illustrations of Great Rebellion, p. 617; cf., Burning Bush, p. 123). The disaster was ascribed by Clarendon to Long's 'great defect of courage and conduct' (Hist. 1888, iv. 12). He was soon exchanged, and in August 1645 captured Chippenham (Mercurius Aulicus, 12 Aug. 1645). On 4 May 1649 he was allowed to compound for his estates at the Goldsmiths' Hall, the assessment being fixed at 300l. He thereupon paid his fine of 714l., and sued out his pardon (Cal. Proc. Comm. for Advance of Money, ii. 624, 983). Shortly after his release, Aubrey relates how 'Oliver, Protector, hawking at Hounslow Heath, discoursing with him, fell in love with his company, and commanded him to weare his sword, and to meet him a hawkeing, which made the strict cavaliers look on him with an evill eye.' In 1673, by the death of his uncle, Long succeeded to the baronetcy and estates of Wraxhall and Draycot. He was admirably adapted for a country gentleman's life, if we may believe Aubrey, who states that, in addition to his intellectual attainments, he was a 'good swordsman, great memorie, great falconer and for horsemanship. For insects exceedingly curious and searching long since in naturall things.' He was also something of an antiquary; in a letter to Aubrey, preserved in the Bodleian Library, dated 1688, there is an interesting description by Long of a number of Roman coins found at Heddington, Wiltshire. In the same year he wrote a short account of his family history, which is preserved in Wotton's 'Baronetage' (1771), ii. 265. For the purposes of sport Long was wont to spend a week or two every autumn at Abury, whither Aubrey frequently accompanied him. 'Our sport,' says the antiquary, 'was good … but the flight of the falcons was but a parenthesis to the colonell's facetious discourse,who was“tam Marti, tam Mercurio,” and the Muses did accompany him with his hawkes and spaniells' (, Wiltshire Topographical Collections). According to Aubrey, Long wrote a great work on the 'History and Causes of the Civill War,' but it does not appear to be extant. In 1690 Edward Wells [q. v.] dedicated to Long his 'Geographical Table' (see, Alumni Westm. p. 205). The baronet died suddenly in London on 22 Jan. 1691-2 (, Brief Relation, ii. 342), and was buried at Draycot (Pedigree, &c., ut supra).

Long married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Edward Leech of Shipley, Derbyshire, 'a