Batchelor, Thomas (1775–1838), farmer and writer on language, was born on 25 September 1775 at Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, the fifth child of Joseph Batchelor (1741–1804) and Ann Brandon (d. 1792), farmers. He was baptized in 1785 at Ampthill where, from the age of ten to thirteen, he went to school. At this time, spelling book fables were the only texts he could read with any real sense of enjoyment, his particular favourite being ...
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Batchelor, Thomas (1775–1838), farmer and writer on language
John Martin
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Bathe, William (1564–1614), Jesuit and linguistic scholar
Thomas J. Morrissey
Bathe, William (1564–1614), Jesuit and linguistic scholar, was born on Easter Sunday, 2 April 1564, the eldest son of John Bathe (or Bath, d. 1586), of Drumcondra on the outskirts of Dublin, and his wife, Eleanor (d. c.1575), daughter of Jenico Preston, ...
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Beck, Cave (bap. 1622, d. 1706), writer on universal language and Church of England clergyman
J. M. Blatchly
Beck, Cave (bap. 1622, d. 1706), writer on universal language and Church of England clergyman, second son of John Beck, 'pandoxator' or brewer, and Anne Flecher (probably née Cave, and widow of Adam Flecher), was born in the parish of ...
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Butler, Edward Dundas (1842–1919), linguist and librarian
Lóránt Czigány
Butler, Edward Dundas (1842–1919), linguist and librarian, was born on 15 October 1842 at 6 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, the son of Thomas Butler and his wife, Jane Isabella, née North. Having been educated at Blue Coat School, London, he joined the department of printed books of the ...
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Chamberlain [Chamberlen], Nathaniel (bap. 1612), linguist and physician
Vivian Salmon
Chamberlain [Chamberlen], Nathaniel (bap. 1612), linguist and physician, was the third son of the barber–surgeon Peter Chamberlen the younger (1572–1626) [see under Chamberlen family] and his wife, Sara, daughter of William Delaune (c. 1530–1611). He was baptized at the French church in ...
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Cheeke, William (fl. 1592–1615?), anagrammatist
Edward A. Malone
Cheeke, William (fl. 1592–1615
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Corder, Stephen Pit (1918–1990), linguistic scholar
Alan Davies
Corder, Stephen Pit (1918–1990), linguistic scholar, was born on 6 October 1918, at 4 Bootham Terrace, York, the second of the two sons of Philip Corder (b. 1885), schoolmaster, and his wife, Johanna Adriana van der Mersch (b. 1887). His father was English and his mother Dutch. ...
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Cornwall, Sir James Handyside Marshall- (1887–1985)
Maker: Walter Stoneman
Sir James Handyside Marshall- Cornwall (1887–1985) by Walter Stoneman, 1936 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Cornwall, Sir James Handyside Marshall- (1887–1985), army officer and linguist
Leo Cooper and T. R. Hartman
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Cornwall, Sir James Handyside Marshall- (1887–1985), army officer and linguist, was born in India on 27 May 1887, the only son and elder child of James Cornwall, postmaster-general of the United Provinces, India, and his wife, Agnes Hunter. He was educated at Rugby School...
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Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (c. 1807–1891), bishop of western Africa and linguistic scholar
John Flint
Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (c. 1807–1891), bishop of western Africa and linguistic scholar, was born of Yoruba parents at Oshogun, in the south-west of Nigeria. Captured in war in 1821 he was sold on 7 April 1822 to a Portuguese slave ship in Lagos...
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Crowther, Samuel Ajayi (c. 1807–1891)
Maker: Ernest Edwards
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther (c. 1807–1891) by Ernest Edwards, c. 1864 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Dalgarno, George (c. 1616–1687), writer on language
David Cram
Dalgarno, George (c. 1616–1687), writer on language, was 'borne at Old Aberdeen, and bred in the university at New Aberdeen', according to Wood (Wood, Ath. Oxon., 506). No primary documentary evidence has survived concerning his family background. His date of birth, usually given as about 1626 on the basis of ...
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Dyche, Thomas (d. 1722x7), schoolmaster and writer on language
Gordon Goodwin
revised by S. J. Skedd
Dyche, Thomas (d. 1722x7), schoolmaster and writer on language, is of unknown origins. He was educated at Ashbourne Free School, Derbyshire, under the Revd William Hardestee, and subsequently took holy orders. He moved to London and in 1708 was keeping a school in ...
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Fenton, Alexander [Sandy] (1929–2012), ethnologist and linguist
Ian A. Olson
Fenton, Alexander [Sandy] (1929–2012), ethnologist and linguist, was born on 26 June 1929 at 15 Milford Avenue, Shotts, Lanarkshire, the eldest child in the family of three sons and a daughter of Alexander Fenton, crofter and shoemaker, and his wife, Annie Stirling, née...
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Firth, John Rupert (1890–1960), linguistic scholar
R. H. Robins
Firth, John Rupert (1890–1960), linguistic scholar, was born on 17 June 1890 at Keighley, Yorkshire, the elder son of William Firth, bookkeeper, and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Waller.
John Rupert Firth was educated at Keighley grammar school and the University of Leeds, where he obtained first-class honours in history (1911) and took his MA degree in 1913. He married ...
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Gardiner, Sir Alan Henderson (1879–1963), Egyptologist and linguistic scholar
R. S. Simpson
Gardiner, Sir Alan Henderson (1879–1963), Egyptologist and linguistic scholar, was born on 29 March 1879 in Eltham, Kent, the younger son of Henry John Gardiner (1843–1940), director (later chairman) of the textile company Bradbury, Greatorex & Co., and his wife, Clara Elizabeth, née...
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Gwynn, (John) Peter Lucius (1916–1999), administrator in India and linguist
Gutala Krishnamurti
Gwynn, (John) Peter Lucius (1916–1999), administrator in India and linguist, was born on 22 June 1916 at 37 Hyde Park Mansions, Marylebone, London, the eldest child and only son of John Tudor Gwynn (1881–1956), a member of the Indian Civil Service, and his wife, ...
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Harrison, Robert (1714/15–1802), natural philosopher and linguist
F. R. Stephenson
Harrison, Robert (1714/15–1802), natural philosopher and linguist, son of Robert Harrison, was born in Durham, where he was baptized on 1 March 1715 at St Nicholas's Church. He was a king's scholar at Durham School, practised law in Yarm, and married Anne Hett (1716/17–1799)...
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Hawkins, Eric William (1915–2010), linguistic scholar and educationist
Alan Dobson
Hawkins, Eric William (1915–2010), linguistic scholar and educationist, was born on 8 January 1915 in Heswall, Wirral, the second of six children of James Edward Hawkins (1886–1958), a versatile cabinet-maker who taught himself many other skills, and his wife Agnes Thompson, ...
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Henderson [married name Meier], Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989), phonetician and linguistic scholar
R. H. Robins
Henderson [married name Meier], Eugénie Jane Andrina (1914–1989), phonetician and linguistic scholar, was born on 2 October 1914 at Rose Villa, Archbold Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, the daughter of William Alexander Cruikshank Henderson, civil engineer, and his wife, Pansy Viola, née Schurer...
