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John Wesley Hales (Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Oct. 5, 1836-London, May 19, 1914), was a British scholar and a man of letters. He was educated at Louth grammar school, Glasgow High School, Durham grammar school, Glasgow University and Christ's College, Cambridge, which elected him to a fellowship. He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under Dr. Bradley, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of Wales, New Zealan and Cambridge, and from 1889-93 Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English literature at King's College, London. He married Henrietta Trafford, daughter of judge Richard Leigh Trafford and Eliza Frances Tarleton, in 1867.

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