Joseph Wells (academic)

Joseph Wells (30 December 1855 – 1929) was a British author and Oxford academic, where he served as Vice-Chancellor from 1923 to 1926.

Educated at Reading School and the Queen's College, Oxford, Wells became a tutor in 1883 and then in 1913 Warden of Wadham College, Oxford.

Books

 * Oxford and its Colleges, etc.
 * A Short History of Rome to the Death of Augustus (1896)
 * Wadham College (1898)
 * The Oxford Degree Ceremony, Clarendon Press (1906)
 * The Charm of Oxford (1920)
 * ed. (with W. W. How) Herodotus (2 vols)
 * Studies in Herodotus, 1923