Edwin Abbott Abbott |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 December 1838 Marylebone, Middlesex, England
|
12 October 1926 Marylebone, Middlesex, England
|
English |
Headmaster of City of London School (1865–1889) / Author
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
William Johnston Anderson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 June 1830 Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
|
1900 Arbroath, Angus, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Insurance agent |
|
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Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
14 November 1843 Walberton, Sussex, England
|
4 June 1914 Walberton, Sussex, England
|
English |
Politician / Lawyer / Warden of All Souls College (1881–1914)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Edward Arber |
male |
correspondent |
4 December 1836 London, England
|
23 November 1912 London, England
|
English |
Professor of English Language and Literature at Mason Science College, Birmingham (1881–1894)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Edited many early modern texts for publication or reprinting. Friend of Murray, whom he supplied with copies of his “English Reprints” series for reading, and with
whom he corresponded on many specific points’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Major General Richard Drapes Ardagh |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
21 December 1823 Madras, India
|
29 April 1899 Madras, India
|
English |
Army officer |
|
|
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
12 September 1852 Morley, Yorkshire, England
|
15 February 1928 Morley, Yorkshire, England
|
English |
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908–1916)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour |
male |
correspondent |
31 March 1853 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
30 November 1922 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Botanist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Charles Godfrey Balk |
male |
correspondent |
30 September 1857 Ipswich, Suffolk, England
|
3 December 1915 Ipswich, Suffolk, England
|
English |
Lexicographer |
|
Balk was one of Murray’s editorial assistants on the OED from 1885 to 1913. |
Elsie Mayflower Ruthven Murray Barling |
female |
non-correspondent |
1882 Mill Hill, London, England
|
1952 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
Lexicographer |
|
Elsie Murray was the eighth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as an editorial assistant on the OED from 1899 to 1920, when she emigrated to South Africa. |
Katharine Lee Bates |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
12 August 1859 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
28 March 1929 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
American |
Author / Literary scholar |
VIAF / ANB |
|
Beatrice Batty |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1833 London, England
|
30 April 1933 London, England
|
English |
Editor / Novelist |
VIAF |
|
Alexander Beazeley |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 August 1830 Brighton, Sussex, England
|
1 December 1905 Brighton, Sussex, England
|
English |
Civil engineer |
VIAF |
|
Henry Charles Beeching |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
15 May 1859 London, England
|
25 February 1919 London, England
|
English |
Author / Dean of Norwich
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Alexander Graham Bell |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 March 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
2 August 1922 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Inventor of the telephone / Teacher |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
14 July 1868 Washington Hall, Durham, England
|
12 July 1926 Washington Hall, Durham, England
|
English |
Archaeologist / Diplomat / Travel writer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 February 1844 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
|
29 June 1931 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
|
English |
Ironmaster / Politician |
VIAF |
|
Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 March 1836 Westerfield, Suffolk, England
|
4 January 1919 Westerfield, Suffolk, England
|
English |
Novelist / Travel writer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir Arthur John Bigge, Baron Stamfordham |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
18 June 1849 Linden Hall, Northumberland, England
|
31 March 1931 Linden Hall, Northumberland, England
|
English |
Courtier |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Adam William Black |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 February 1784 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
24 January 1874 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Politician / Publisher |
|
|
John Stuart Blackie |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
28 July 1809 Glasgow, Scotland
|
2 March 1895 Glasgow, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Classicist / Scottish Gaelic scholar |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Louis Lucien Bonaparte |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 January 1813 Grimley, Worcestershire, England
|
3 November 1891 Grimley, Worcestershire, England
|
French |
Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
John Frederick Boyes |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
13 December 1896
|
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Antiquarian / wine merchant |
|
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Henry Bradley |
male |
correspondent |
3 December 1845 Manchester, England
|
23 May 1923 Manchester, England
|
English |
Philologist / Lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
After performing some trial work on the OED in 1885, Bradley was made an editor in 1886. In 1915, he succeeded Murray as the chief editor, a position he held until his death. |
Henry Bradshaw |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 February 1831 London, England
|
10 February 1886 London, England
|
English |
Bibliographer / University Librarian at Cambridge (1867–1886)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Edward Lyall Brandreth |
male |
correspondent |
4 February 1823 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
10 December 1907 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
English |
Civil servant / Asian scholar |
|
‘Barrister. Joined the Philological Society in 1872, and regularly served on its Council. Sub-edited in G, H, K, and N; also read for OED, supplied many quotation desiderata, and assisted for many years by reading proofs
and by verifying references at the British Museum’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Robert Seymour Bridges |
male |
correspondent |
23 October 1844 Walmer, Kent, England
|
21 April 1930 Walmer, Kent, England
|
English |
Poet / Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1913–1930)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
Bridges lived at Yattendon, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, from 1882 to 1907, when he moved to Boars Hill in Oxford. Trained in medicine, he ceased to practise as a doctor after contracting pneumonia
in 1881, thereafter devoting his life to literary pursuits. Dates of his letters to Murray
so far identified span 1907–1912. Bridges was a close friend of Henry Bradley, whose Collected Papers he published in 1928 (after Bradley’s death in 1923) together with a memoir. Alongside Bradley, Walter Raleigh (1861–1922; first holder of the Chair of English Literature at Oxford), and Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946), Bridges was associated with the creation of the Society of Pure English in 1913. |
James Britten |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 May 1846 London, England
|
8 October 1924 London, England
|
English |
Botanist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Robert Bruce |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 August 1829 Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
|
1908 Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Congregational minister |
|
|
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 May 1838 Belfast, Northern Ireland
|
22 January 1922 Belfast, Northern Ireland
|
Northern Irish |
Jurist / Historian / Politician |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Mary Hyde Buckingham |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
27 January 1862 Massachusetts, United States of America
|
14 February 1949 Massachusetts, United States of America
|
American |
classics teacher |
|
|
Ingram Bywater |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
27 June 1840 London, England
|
18 December 1914 London, England
|
English |
Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
A. Caland |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1854/1855
|
1910
|
Dutch |
English teacher |
|
|
Lewis Campbell |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 September 1830 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
25 October 1908 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Henry William Chandler |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 January 1828 London, England
|
16 May 1889 London, England
|
English |
Classicist |
ODNB |
|
Robert William Chapman |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
5 October 1881 Eskbank, Midlothian, Scotland
|
20 April 1960 Eskbank, Midlothian, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Literary scholar / Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1906–1920) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1920–1942)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
William Chappell |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 November 1809 London, England
|
20 August 1888 London, England
|
English |
businessman / Musicologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Thomas Kelly Cheyne |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
18 September 1841 London, England
|
16 February 1915 London, England
|
English |
Theologian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Alonzo Church |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1870
|
21 February 1937
|
American |
Civil servant |
|
|
James Toshach Clark |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
Keeper of the Advocates’ Library (1877–1906)
|
|
|
Herbert Coleridge |
male |
non-correspondent |
7 October 1830 London, England
|
23 April 1861 London, England
|
English |
Editor / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
The grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a member of the London Philological Society, Herbert Coleridge was appointed the first editor of the Society’s dictionary (what would become the OED) in 1859. He died in the preliminary stages of the work. |
Pieter Jacob Cosijn |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
29 November 1840 Rijswijk, Netherlands
|
26 August 1899 Rijswijk, Netherlands
|
Dutch |
Lexicographer / Philologist |
|
|
Ethelwyn Edith Agnes Ruthven Murray Cousins |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1878 Mill Hill, London, England
|
1945 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
|
|
Ethelwyn Cousins was the sixth child of James and Ada Murray. |
Sir William Alexander Craigie |
male |
correspondent |
13 August 1867 Dundee, Angus, Scotland
|
2 September 1957 Dundee, Angus, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Philologist / Lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
After beginning work as an editorial assistant to Bradley in 1897, Craigie was made an editor of the OED in 1901. In 1923, he succeeded Bradley as the chief editor, a position he held until the publication of the first Supplement in 1933. |
William John Eden Crane |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1832/1833
|
1910
|
|
Technical writer |
|
|
Robert Needham Cust |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
24 February 1821
|
27 October 1909
|
|
Author / Civil servant / Judge |
VIAF |
|
Thomas Dent |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
Teacher |
|
|
Albert Venn Dicey |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 February 1835 Claybrooke Hall, Leicestershire, England
|
7 April 1922 Claybrooke Hall, Leicestershire, England
|
English |
Jurist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Effie Dickson |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
29 March 1846 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
16 May 1929 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Poet |
|
|
James Dixon |
male |
correspondent |
12 December 1813 London, England
|
3 January 1896 London, England
|
English |
Ophthalmic surgeon |
VIAF |
‘Author of Diseases of the Eye (1855). In 1870, because of his wife’s illness, he gave up his London practice and retired to Dorking, Surrey, taking up literary and historical interests. Contributed quotations to OED, including many desiderata’, and gave considerable help with the history of medical
terms (Gilliver 2000–). |
Charles Edward Doble |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
5 March 1847 Peckham, Surrey, England
|
22 September 1914 Peckham, Surrey, England
|
English |
Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1879–1909)
|
VIAF |
|
Edward Spencer Dodgson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
18 November 1857 Woodford, Essex, England
|
9 October 1922 Woodford, Essex, England
|
English |
Basque philologist |
VIAF |
|
Henry Austin Dodson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
8 January 1840 Plymouth, Devon, England
|
2 September 1921 Plymouth, Devon, England
|
English |
Essayist / Poet |
|
|
Katherine Fitzroy Druitt |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 July 1858 London, England
|
30 June 1887 London, England
|
English |
|
|
|
Edward Gordon Duff |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
16 February 1863 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
28 September 1924 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
English |
Bibliographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Stephen Troyte Dunn |
male |
correspondent |
26 August 1868 Bristol, England
|
18 April 1938 Bristol, England
|
English |
Botanist / Private Secretary to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1898–1901)
|
VIAF |
|
George EliotMary Anne Evans Lewes |
female |
correspondent |
22 November 1819
|
22 December 1880
|
English |
Novelist / Poet |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
19 March 1814
|
17 March 1891
|
English |
Politician |
|
|
Richard Thomas Elliott |
male |
correspondent |
28 September 1863 Camberwell, Surrey, England
|
5 August 1926 Camberwell, Surrey, England
|
English |
Classicist |
VIAF |
|
Alexander John Ellis |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
14 June 1814 Hoxton, Middlesex, England
|
28 October 1890 Hoxton, Middlesex, England
|
English |
Mathematician / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Robinson Ellis |
male |
correspondent |
5 September 1834 Barming, Kent, England
|
9 October 1913 Barming, Kent, England
|
English |
Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Classical scholar, perhaps best known for his edition of Catullus. Close friend of Murray, whom he often accompanied on holidays abroad; regularly consulted for advice on
particular words; also read for OED’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Frederick Thomas Elworthy |
male |
correspondent |
10 January 1830 Wellington, Somerset, England
|
13 December 1907 Wellington, Somerset, England
|
English |
Philologist / Antiquarian |
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Wrote extensively on Somerset and Devon, including The West Somerset Word-Book (1886). Close friend of Murray. He and his family read for OED (credited between them with 12,900 quotations in 1884), and sub-edited part of D’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
John Stephen Farmer |
male |
correspondent |
7 March 1854 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
|
18 January 1916 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
|
English |
Author / slang lexicographer / Spiritualist |
VIAF |
|
Joseph Thomas Fowler |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
9 June 1833 Winterton, Lincolnshire, England
|
22 March 1924 Winterton, Lincolnshire, England
|
English |
Surgeon / clergyman / Antiquarian |
VIAF |
|
Edward Augustus Freeman |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 August 1823 Harborne, Staffordshire, England
|
16 March 1892 Harborne, Staffordshire, England
|
English |
Historian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
John Charles Freeman |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
14 February 1842 Lisle, New York, United States of America
|
10 April 1911 Lisle, New York, United States of America
|
American |
Literary scholar |
VIAF |
|
Frederick Cornish Frost |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1855 Torquay, Devon, England
|
14 May 1914 Torquay, Devon, England
|
English |
Antiquarian / Auctioneer |
|
|
Henry Frowde |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
8 February 1841 Southsea, Hampshire, England
|
3 March 1927 Southsea, Hampshire, England
|
English |
Publisher to the University of Oxford (1883–1913)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Frederick James Furnivall |
male |
correspondent |
4 February 1825 Egham, Surrey, England
|
2 July 1910 Egham, Surrey, England
|
English |
Editor / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
A prominent member of the London Philological Society, Furnivall was appointed the editor of what would become the OED after the death of Herbert Coleridge in 1861. He carried no part of the dictionary through to publication and was succeeded by Murray in 1879. He ‘remained actively involved with the Dictionary until his death, as an advocate
of the project, as a constant source of advice, by research in the British Museum, and as a tireless contributor of quotations (already credited with “about 30,000”
in 1888), including a great many taken from his ordinary daily reading of newspapers and
magazines’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Sir William Tennant Gairdner |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
8 November 1824 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
28 June 1907 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Pathologist / Physician |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Philip Lyttelton Gell |
male |
correspondent |
29 April 1852 London, England
|
29 May 1926 London, England
|
English |
Businessman / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1884–1898)
|
VIAF |
As Secretary, Gell ‘appointed Henry Bradley to assist Murray; constantly sought to improve the rate of production’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham |
male |
correspondent |
31 August 1819 London, England
|
13 September 1907 London, England
|
English |
Banker / Businessman |
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Joined the Philological Society in 1859, and remained closely involved with OED for the rest of his life; became a close friend of Murray, whom he advised and helped in respect of both editorial and practical aspects of
the work. Reader for OED; sub-edited in C, K, and Q’ and collaborated in his cousin Charlotte Yonge’s sub-editing part of N; ‘read and annotated the proofs of the first fascicle, and continued to help in this
way for many years; consulted as an authority on financial terms. Also edited texts
for the EETS and other societies’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
J. Gibbs |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 April 1852 London, England
|
28 April 1935 London, England
|
English |
Businessman |
ODNB |
|
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
7 January 1854 London, England
|
6 March 1930 London, England
|
English |
Home Secretary of the United Kingdom (1905–1910) / Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1910–1914)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
William Ewart Gladstone |
male |
correspondent |
29 December 1809 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
19 May 1898 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
English |
Author / Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
Gladstone seems first to have met Murray when presenting prizes at Mill Hill School in the summer of 1880 at the start of his second term of office as Prime Minister. He ‘often stayed with
the Earl of Aberdeen in the village and made a habit of dropping in to Murray’s workroom, prior to the family’s removal to Oxford, bringing other guests with him, to see how the work was progressing—expressing the
“sorrowful conviction” that he would never see the completion of the work’ (Murray 1977: 186–187, quoting ‘Curiosus’ 1880: 263). |
Alfred Denis Godley |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
22 January 1856 Ashfield, Cavan, Ireland
|
27 June 1925 Ashfield, Cavan, Ireland
|
Irish |
Classicist / Author |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 June 1847 London, England
|
27 June 1932 London, England
|
English |
Civil servant |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Richard William Goulding |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1868 Louth, Lincolnshire, England
|
1929 Louth, Lincolnshire, England
|
English |
Librarian / local historian |
VIAF |
|
Walter Gregor |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
23 October 1825 Keith, Banffshire, Scotland
|
4 February 1897 Keith, Banffshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
clergyman / Editor / Folklorist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Elizabeth Grey |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edward Everett Hale |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 April 1822 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
10 June 1909 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
American |
Author / clergyman / Historian |
VIAF / ANB |
|
Fitzedward Hall |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
21 March 1825 Troy, New York, United States of America
|
1 February 1901 Troy, New York, United States of America
|
American |
Asian scholar / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Thomas Hallam |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
7 September 1895
|
English |
Philologist |
|
|
J. Hamilton |
male |
correspondent |
|
|
|
|
|
|
James Hammond |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 October 1850 Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
|
29 August 1930 Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
|
English |
Mathematician |
|
|
John Hancock |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
24 February 1808 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
|
11 October 1890 Newcastle upon Tyne, England
|
English |
Naturalist |
|
|
Heywood Hardy |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
25 November 1842 Chichester, Sussex, England
|
20 January 1933 Chichester, Sussex, England
|
English |
Painter |
VIAF |
|
Thomas Hardy |
male |
correspondent |
2 June 1840 Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
|
11 January 1928 Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England
|
English |
Novelist / Poet |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Harold Harley |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
Teacher |
|
|
Horace Henry Hart |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
23 March 1840 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
|
9 October 1916 Sudbury, Suffolk, England
|
English |
Controller of the Oxford University Press (1883–1915)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Edith Margaret Hastings |
female |
correspondent |
1851
|
21 April 1941
|
British |
Headmistress of Wimbledon High School (1880–1908) / School inspector
|
|
Hastings was the first Headmistress of Wimbledon High School (set up by the Girls’ Public Day School Company in 1880). She had moved to the school (aged 29) from a previous headship at Nottingham High School and left to become an Inspector of Secondary Schools. |
Hartwig Richard Helwich |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
9 December 1844 Königgrätz, Austria
|
1900 Königgrätz, Austria
|
Austrian |
Philologist |
|
|
William Ernest Henley |
male |
correspondent |
23 August 1849 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
|
11 July 1903 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England
|
English |
Author / slang lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sidney John Hervon Herrtage |
male |
non-correspondent |
19 February 1845
|
October 1893
|
Irish |
Lexicographer / Philologist |
|
Herrtage ‘edited several texts for the EETS, including the late 15th-century glossary Catholicon Anglicum (published 1881), and for the English Dialect Society. Reader for OED; appointed by Murray as his first assistant in the Scriptorium in 1879, but was dismissed in 1882’ for the theft of reference books and the misappropriation of OED materials to work on another project, Cassell’s Encyclopædic Dictionary (1879–1888) (Gilliver 2000–). |
Andrew John Herbertson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
11 October 1865 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
15 July 1915 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Geographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
George Birkbeck Norman Hill |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
7 June 1835 Tottenham, Middlesex, England
|
24 February 1903 Tottenham, Middlesex, England
|
English |
Author / Editor |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Wallace Henry Hills |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1863 Chiddingly, Sussex, England
|
5 January 1932 Chiddingly, Sussex, England
|
|
Journalist / local historian |
|
|
Louise Manning Hodgkins |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
5 August 1846 Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
28 November 1935 Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
|
Literary scholar |
|
|
Fenton John Anthony Hort |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
23 April 1828 Dublin, Ireland
|
30 November 1892 Dublin, Ireland
|
Irish |
Theologian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Jennett Humphreys |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 April 1829 Cricklewood, Middlesex, England
|
6 February 1917 Cricklewood, Middlesex, England
|
English |
Biographer / children’s author / Poet |
VIAF |
|
Sir Thomas Hunter |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
9 June 1850 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
25 August 1919 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Judge / Town Clerk of Edinburgh (1895–1918)
|
|
|
Richard Holt Hutton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 June 1826 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
|
9 September 1897 Leeds, Yorkshire, England
|
English |
Journalist / Theologian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Georgina Frederica Jackson |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 March 1824 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
16 October 1895 Liverpool, Lancashire, England
|
English |
Dialectologist |
|
|
William Wilberforce Jenkinson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1843
|
26 December 1928
|
English |
Auctioneer / Land agent |
|
|
Henry Jenner |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
8 August 1848 St Columb Major, Cornwall
|
8 May 1934 St Columb Major, Cornwall
|
English |
Celtic scholar |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Charles Stanger Jerram |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 February 1838 Torquay, Devon, England
|
19 April 1914 Torquay, Devon, England
|
English |
Classicist / Editor |
VIAF |
|
Jones Daniel |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
12 September 1881 London, England
|
4 December 1967 London, England
|
English |
Phonetician |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Benjamin Jowett |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
15 April 1817 Camberwell, Surrey, England
|
1 October 1893 Camberwell, Surrey, England
|
English |
Delegate of Oxford University Press (1882–1886) / Master of Balliol College (1870–1893) / Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1882–1886)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Thomas Henry Kingerlee |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
26 January 1843 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
|
22 December 1928 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
|
English |
Builder / Mayor of Oxford (1898–1899, 1911–1912)
|
|
|
Andrew Lang |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 March 1844 Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
20 July 1912 Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Classicist / Folklorist / Historian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Walter Leaf |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
26 November 1852 Norwood, Surrey, England
|
8 March 1927 Norwood, Surrey, England
|
English |
Banker / Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
James Lecky |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1855
|
30 March 1890
|
Irish |
Phonetician |
|
|
James Crawford Ledlie |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
April 1860
|
1928
|
Irish |
Jurist / Civil servant |
VIAF |
|
Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 February 1887 Saint Pierre, Mauritius
|
22 August 1968 Saint Pierre, Mauritius
|
Scottish |
Civil servant / Economist |
VIAF |
|
Major John Henry Leslie |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
April 1858 London, England
|
8 January 1943 London, England
|
Scottish |
Army officer / Military historian |
VIAF |
|
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
11 May 1815 London, England
|
31 March 1891 London, England
|
English |
Politician |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Otto Theodor Leyde |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1835 Wehlau, Prussia
|
31 March 1891 Wehlau, Prussia
|
Prussian |
Painter |
|
|
Henry George Liddell |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 February 1811 Binchester, County Durham, England
|
18 January 1898 Binchester, County Durham, England
|
English |
Greek–English lexicographer / Dean of Christ Church (1855–1891)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
John Mason Lightwood |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 July 1852 Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England
|
4 April 1947 Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England
|
English |
Lawyer / Teacher |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Gwyneth Nesta Lilian Ruthven Murray Logan |
female |
non-correspondent |
1888 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
|
1979 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
|
English |
Teacher |
|
Gwyneth Logan was the eleventh child of James and Ada Murray. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge in 1912 with a First in Mathematics and Physics. |
James Russell Lowell |
male |
correspondent |
22 February 1819 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
12 August 1891 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
American |
Diplomat / Poet / Chair of Belles Lettres at Harvard University (1856–1877)
|
VIAF / ANB |
|
Henry Richard Luard |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 August 1825 London, England
|
1 May 1891 London, England
|
English |
clergyman / University administrator |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
George Campbell Macaulay |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
(6 August 1852 Hodnet, Shropshire, England
|
6 July 1915 Hodnet, Shropshire, England
|
English |
Classicist |
VIAF |
|
Norman MacColl |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 August 1843 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
16 December 1904 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Editor / Hispanist |
VIAF |
|
Falconer Madan |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
15 April 1851 Cam, Gloucestershire, England
|
22 May 1935 Cam, Gloucestershire, England
|
English |
Bibliographer / Bodley’s Librarian (1912–1919)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Frederic William Maitland |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
28 May 1850 London, England
|
20 December 1906 London, England
|
English |
legal historian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Francis Andrew March |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
25 October 1825 Millbury, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
9 September 1911 Millbury, Massachusetts, United States of America
|
American |
Historian / philologist |
VIAF |
|
Sir Clements Robert Markham |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 July 1830 Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, England
|
30 January 1916 Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, England
|
English |
Geographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
16 January 1855 London, England
|
31 March 1898 London, England
|
German / English |
Author / socialist activist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Leonard Mayall |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1865 Mossley, Lancashire, England
|
|
English |
Cotton-spinner |
|
|
Anthony Lawson Mayhew |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1842
|
1916
|
English |
Philologist / Chaplain |
VIAF |
|
Alfred James McFarlane |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 June 1870 Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
|
5 May 1957 Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
|
Scottish |
Missionary |
|
|
I. McLeod |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
Teacher |
|
|
Sir Roderick Sinclair Meiklejohn |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
30 May 1876
|
18 January 1962
|
English |
Secretary to Herbert Henry Asqutih
|
|
|
Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe Paul Meyer |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 January 1840 Paris, France
|
8 September 1917 Paris, France
|
French |
Chair of Southern European Language and Literature at the Collège de France (1876–1906) / Director of the École nationale des chartes (1882–1916)
|
VIAF |
|
Annabella Milne |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1842?
|
1936?
|
Scottish |
|
|
|
Dr Moffat |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Harriet Moore |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
29 April 1806 Derby, Derbyshire, England
|
30 August 1887 Derby, Derbyshire, England
|
English |
|
|
|
Lieutenant-Colonel William Edward Moss |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1875
|
14 February 1953
|
English |
Book collector |
VIAF |
|
Alfred William Mudge |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
c. 1833
|
29 August 1921
|
British |
Painter |
VIAF |
|
Friedrich Max Müller |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 December 1823 Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, Germany
|
28 October 1900 Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, Germany
|
German |
Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Ada Agnes Ruthven Murray |
female |
correspondent |
12 October 1845 Kendal, Westmorland, England
|
28 February 1936 Kendal, Westmorland, England
|
English |
|
|
In addition to managing the family home, Ada Murray assisted her husband James Murray in his work on the OED and kept his papers, accounts and letters. |
Charles Oliver Murray |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1842 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
11 December 1923 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Painter |
|
Charles Murray was the youngest brother of James Murray. |
George Gilbert Aimé Murray |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 January 1866 Sydney, Australia
|
20 May 1957 Sydney, Australia
|
Australian |
Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Harold James Ruthven Murray |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
24 June 1868 Peckham, Surrey, England
|
16 May 1955 Peckham, Surrey, England
|
English |
School inspector |
VIAF |
Harold Murray was the eldest child of James and Ada Murray. |
Hilda Mary Emily Ada Ruthven Murray |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 November 1875 Mill Hill, London, England
|
23 August 1951 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
Vice-Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge (1924–1936) / Literary scholar / Philologist
|
VIAF / ODNB |
Hilda Murray was the fifth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as one of her father’s editorial assistants on the OED between 1896 and 1899. She went on to become Director of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages then
English at Girton College from 1915 to 1936, and after serving as Vice-Mistress became a Life Fellow in 1942. |
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray |
male |
correspondent |
7 February 1837 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
26 July 1915 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Philologist / Lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
Murray served as the chief editor of the OED from 1879 until his death. |
Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray |
female |
non-correspondent |
3 December 1909
|
6 February 1998
|
English |
Biographer / Headmistress of Bishop Otter College (1948–1970) / University administrator
|
ODNB |
Elisabeth Murray was appointed Assistant Tutor and Registrar at Girton College in 1938, then Domestic Bursar and finally Junior Bursar in 1942–1948, before moving to become Principal of Bishop Otter College in Chichester (a teacher training institution for women) where she remained till retirement in 1970. |
Madeline Murray |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1901 Cape Town, Cape Colony
|
1972 Cape Town, Cape Colony
|
English |
|
|
Madeline Murray was the daughter of Phoebe and Wilfrid Murray. |
Sir Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
17 August 1873 Mill Hill, London, England
|
10 July 1936 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
Civil servant |
ODNB |
Oswyn Murray was the fourth child of James and Ada Murray. |
Phoebe Henrietta Woodhead Murray |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
English |
Member of the South African Women’s Auxiliary Service |
|
Phoebe Murray was the wife of Wilfrid Murray. |
Rosfrith Ada Nina Ruthven Murray |
female |
non-correspondent |
5 February 1884 Mill Hill, London, England
|
20 May 1973 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
Lexicographer |
|
Rosfrith Murray was the ninth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as an editorial assistant on the OED from 1902 to 1929. |
Wilfrid George Ruthven Murray |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 October 1871 Mill Hill, London, England
|
1964 Mill Hill, London, England
|
English |
|
|
Wilfrid Murray was the husband of Phoebe Murray and the third child of James and Ada Murray. |
Arthur Sampson Napier |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
30 August 1853 Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
|
10 May 1916 Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England
|
English |
Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Alfred Newton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
11 June 1829 Geneva, Switzerland
|
7 June 1907 Geneva, Switzerland
|
English |
Zoologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Henry Nicol |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
c. 1845
|
30 January 1881
|
English |
Philologist |
|
|
Jane Rutherford Oliver |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 February 1839 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
26 December 1914 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
local historian |
|
|
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
12 January 1860 Muzaffarpur, North-Western Provinces, India
|
23 June 1946 Muzaffarpur, North-Western Provinces, India
|
English |
Historian |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Charles Talbut Onions |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 September 1873 Birmingham, England
|
8 January 1965 Birmingham, England
|
English |
Philologist / Lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
Onions worked on the OED as an editorial assistant, first to Murray from 1894, then to Bradley from 1899; he also did piecemeal work for Craigie from 1906. In 1914, he was made an editor, a position he held until the publication of the first Supplement in 1933. |
Paul Édouard Passy |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
13 January 1859 Versailles, Yvelines, France
|
21 March 1940 Versailles, Yvelines, France
|
French |
Linguist |
VIAF |
|
William Pengelly |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
12 January 1812 East Looe, Cornwall, England
|
16 March 1894 East Looe, Cornwall, England
|
English |
Archaeologist / Geologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
George Alexander Felix Pernet |
male |
correspondent |
1862 London, England
|
6 January 1940 London, England
|
English |
Dermatologist |
|
|
William Gordon Perrin |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 February 1874
|
12 February 1931
|
English |
Admiralty librarian (1908–1931)
|
|
|
Sir Isaac Pitman |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 January 1813 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
|
22 January 1897 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England
|
English |
Inventor of Pitman shorthand / Teacher |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
10 December 1845 London, England
|
18 January 1937 London, England
|
English |
Jurist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
James Eyre Poppleton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1861 Bradford, Yorkshire, England
|
11 May 1925 Bradford, Yorkshire, England
|
English |
Antiquarian / Lawyer |
|
|
Constance Mary Fearon Pott |
female |
correspondent |
1833
|
25 May 1915
|
English |
Literary scholar |
VIAF |
|
Cuthbert Young Potts |
male |
correspondent |
1824/1825
|
11 May 1909
|
English |
Clergyman |
|
|
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
27 January 1856 Reading, Berkshire, England
|
20 November 1943 Reading, Berkshire, England
|
English |
Zoologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir David Prain |
male |
correspondent |
11 July 1857 Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland
|
16 March 1944 Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
Botanist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Bartholomew Price |
male |
correspondent |
14 May 1818 Coln St Dennis, Gloucestershire, England
|
29 December 1898 Coln St Dennis, Gloucestershire, England
|
English |
Mathematician / Master of Pembroke College, Oxford (1892–1898) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1868–1884)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
As Secretary, Price ‘negotiated the terms of the Press’s agreements with Murray and the Philological Society regarding OED’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Richard Chandler Alexander Prior |
male |
correspondent |
1809 Corsham, Wiltshire, England
|
5 December 1902 Corsham, Wiltshire, England
|
English |
Botanist / Physician |
VIAF |
‘Author of On the Popular Names of British Plants (1863). Also published a collection of translations of Danish ballads (1860) and a book on croquet (1872). Read for OED (credited with 11,700 quotations in 1888), and gave advice on some plant names and botanical terms’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Richard Bissell Prosser |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
25 August 1838 Birmingham, England
|
18 March 1918 Birmingham, England
|
English |
Patent examiner / industrial historian |
VIAF |
|
Robert Purdon |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
Scottish |
Town Clerk of Hawick
|
|
|
Clara Dorothea Rackham |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 December 1875 London, England
|
11 March 1966 London, England
|
English |
political reformer / Suffragist |
ODNB |
|
Alfred Arthur Reade |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1851 Snelson, Cheshire, England
|
|
English |
Journalist |
VIAF |
|
Vincent Burrough Redstone |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1853 Hampshire, England
|
26 April 1941 Hampshire, England
|
English |
local historian |
|
|
Sir John Rhŷs |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
21 June 1840 Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Wales
|
17 December 1915 Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Wales
|
Welsh |
Celtic scholar / President of Jesus College, Oxford (1895–1915)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Charles Pierre Henri Rieu |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
8 June 1820 Geneva, Switzerland
|
19 March 1902 Geneva, Switzerland
|
Swiss |
Asian scholar |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Briton Rivière |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
14 August 1840 London, England
|
20 April 1920 London, England
|
English |
Painter |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
John Robson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1829 Eckford, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
1904 Eckford, Roxburghshire, Scotland
|
Scottish |
|
|
|
Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
15 February 1856 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
|
28 October 1937 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
|
English |
campaigner for women’s higher education / Classicist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
7 January 1833 London, England
|
18 December 1915 London, England
|
English |
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Joseph Benjamin Rundell |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
c. 1834
|
1 April 1889
|
English |
Civil servant / Editor / Spelling reformer |
VIAF |
|
George Augustus Sala |
male |
correspondent |
24 November 1828 London, England
|
8 December 1895 London, England
|
English |
Journalist / Novelist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Philip Lutley Sclater |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 November 1829 Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England
|
27 June 1913 Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England
|
English |
Zoologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Charles Scott |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
|
|
|
Lawyer |
|
|
Frederic Scrutton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1859 London, England
|
27 April 1937 London, England
|
English |
Shipowner |
|
|
SirThomas Edward Scrutton |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
28 August 1856 London, England
|
18 August 1934 London, England
|
English |
Judge / Jurist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Horace Alfred Damer Seymour |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
9 April 1843 Brighton, Sussex, England
|
25 June 1902 Brighton, Sussex, England
|
English |
Civil servant |
|
|
Evelyn Jane Sharp |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 August 1869 London, England
|
17 June 1955 London, England
|
English |
children’s author / Suffragist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Eduard Sievers |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
25 November 1850 Lippoldsberg, Hesse, Germany
|
30 March 1932 Lippoldsberg, Hesse, Germany
|
German |
Philologist |
VIAF |
|
Kenneth Sisam |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 September 1887 Ōpōtiki, North Island, New Zealand
|
26 August 1971 Ōpōtiki, North Island, New Zealand
|
New Zealander |
Philologist / Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1925–1942) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1942–1948)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Walter William Skeat |
male |
correspondent |
21 November 1835 London, England
|
30 October 1912 London, England
|
English |
Elrington and Bosworth professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1878-–1912)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Published many important works in English philology, perhaps most notably the Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (1882). Joined the Philological Society in 1863, and took an early interest in OED; sub-edited in R for Furnivall. Founded the English Dialect Society in 1873, through which he encountered Murray and became a close friend and adviser ... by reading books, seeking out quotations, giving etymological advice on particular
words, and reading proofs’ (Gilliver 2000–). |
Thomas Collins Snow |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
2 February 1852 York, Yorkshire, England
|
27 October 1926 York, Yorkshire, England
|
English |
Classicist |
VIAF |
|
William Johnson Sollas |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
30 May 1849 Birmingham, England
|
20 October 1936 Birmingham, England
|
English |
Anthropologist / Geologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby |
female |
correspondent |
18 July 1856 London, England
|
19 May 1927 London, England
|
English |
Headmistress of Oxford High School (1887–1897)
|
VIAF / ODNB |
|
Anthony Butler Stark |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
13 July 1832 Robertson County, Tennessee, United States of America
|
1884 Robertson County, Tennessee, United States of America
|
American |
President of Logan Female College, Kentucky (1874–1883)
|
|
|
Robert Louis Stevenson |
male |
correspondent |
13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland
|
3 December 1894 Edinburgh, Scotland
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Scottish |
Novelist / Poet |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Margaret Haig Stuart |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Scottish |
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Henry Sweet |
male |
correspondent |
15 September 1845 London, England
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30 April 1912 London, England
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English |
Philologist / Phonetician |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Algernon Charles Swinburne |
male |
correspondent |
5 April 1837 London, England
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10 April 1909 London, England
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English |
Literary scholar / Poet |
VIAF / ODNB |
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George Frederick Holley Sykes |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1829
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3 February 1910
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Lexicographer / schoolmaster |
VIAF |
Sykes worked on the OED as an editorial assistant, first to Murray from 1885, then to Bradley from 1887 to 1903. |
William Sykes |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1851
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1906
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Physician |
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James Joseph Sylvester |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
3 September 1814 London, England
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15 March 1897 London, England
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English |
Mathematician |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Henriette Taylor |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Librarian |
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T. S. L. |
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English |
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Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 August 1809 Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
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6 October 1892 Somersby, Lincolnshire, England
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English |
Poet / Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1850–1892)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
11 August 1852 Twickenham, Middlesex, England
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2 December 1928 Twickenham, Middlesex, England
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English |
Biographer / Governor-general of Australia (1903–1904)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
28 July 1843 London, England
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23 December 1928 London, England
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English |
Botanist / Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1885–1905)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Edith Thompson |
female |
correspondent |
16 May 1848 Greenwich, London, England
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26 August 1929 Greenwich, London, England
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English |
Historian / Lexicographer |
VIAF / ODNB |
‘Wrote a popular History of England (1873) for schools. Gave advice to OED on historical terms, and sought out quotations for particular words. She and her sister Elizabeth Perronet Thompson (1857–1930) (who also wrote A Dragoon’s Wife, subtitled ‘a romance of the 17th century’) were readers for OED (credited with 15,000 quotations in 1888), and gave help throughout its period of publication, including sub-editing in C, and reading proofs from D onwards’ (Gilliver 2000–). See ‘Women and the Dictionary, Part I: Assistants and Volunteers’. |
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 May 1840 Clarendon, Jamaica
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14 September 1929 Clarendon, Jamaica
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English |
Palaeographer / Librarian |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Joseph Thompson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1833
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1909
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English |
businessman / alderman |
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Thomas Perronet Edward Thompson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
4 May 1813 York, Yorkshire, England
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25 August 1904 York, Yorkshire, England
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English |
Judge / Lawyer |
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Mary S. Thorpe |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Hon. Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1840 Cheshire, England
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23 December 1926 Cheshire, England
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English |
Author / translator from Russian |
VIAF |
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Lucy Toulmin Smith |
female |
correspondent |
21 November 1838 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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18 December 1911 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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American / English |
Librarian / Literary scholar |
VIAF / ODNB |
Accomplished medievalist with expertise in Middle English and Old French. Editor of
the Clarendon Press York Mystery Plays, the standard text until the 1980s, and long-standing contributor to OED as well as protegée and friend of Murray. See ‘Women and the Dictionary, Part I: Assistants and Volunteers’. |
Paget Jackson Toynbee |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
20 January 1855 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
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13 May 1932 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
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English |
Dante scholar |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Richard Chenevix Trench |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
9 September 1807 Dublin, Ireland
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28 March 1886 Dublin, Ireland
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Irish |
Archbishop of Dublin (1864–1884)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Frances Eleanor Trollope |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
August 1835 Delaware Bay, United States of America
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14 August 1913 Delaware Bay, United States of America
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English |
Novelist |
VIAF |
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Thomas Adolphus Trollope |
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correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
29 April 1810 London, England
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11 November 1892 London, England
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English |
Historian / Novelist |
VIAF / ODNB |
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S. Alice Tucker |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Teacher |
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Sir Edward Burnett Tylor |
male |
correspondent |
2 October 1832 Camberwell, Surrey, England
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2 January 1917 Camberwell, Surrey, England
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English |
Anthropologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
Tylor would be acknowledged in the first volume of the OED for his assistance with words from American and African languages (Murray 1888: xii). However, he would fall out with Murray in 1892, after a public argument over the use of the word couvade to describe certain childbirth customs supposedly practised in provincial France (see Bailey 2000: 220–224). |
Charles Anthony Vince |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
7 December 1855 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England
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27 January 1929 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England
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English |
Headmaster of Mill Hill School (1886–1891)
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Sydney Howard Vines |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 December 1849 London, England
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4 April 1934 London, England
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English |
Botanist |
VIAF / ODNB |
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William Walbran |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Clergyman |
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William Walsh |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
30 January 1841 Dublin, Ireland
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9 April 1921 Dublin, Ireland
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Irish |
Archbishop of Dublin (1885–1921)
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VIAF |
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Prudence Elizabeth Frances Walter |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1859 Dublin, Ireland
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1941 Dublin, Ireland
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Edith Elizabeth Wardale |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
6 March 1863 Orcheston St Mary, Wiltshire, England
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27 February 1943 Orcheston St Mary, Wiltshire, England
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English |
Literary scholar / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Sir Thomas Herbert Warren |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
21 October 1853 Bristol, England
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9 June 1930 Bristol, England
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English |
Classicist / President of Magdalen College (1885–1928)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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David McBurnie Watson |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1836/1837 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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18 September 1902 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland
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English |
local historian |
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William Henry Wesley |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
23 August 1841 Stapenhill, Staffordshire, England
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17 October 1922 Stapenhill, Staffordshire, England
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English |
Astronomer |
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Richard Francis Weymouth |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
26 October 1822 Plymouth, Devon, England
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27 December 1902 Plymouth, Devon, England
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English |
Philologist / Theologian / Headmaster of Mill Hill School (1869–1886)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Ralph Olmsted Williams |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1837/1838
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17 July 1908
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American |
Lexicographer |
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Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth |
female |
correspondent |
22 June 1840 Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
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30 November 1932 Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England
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English |
Author / Founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall (1879–1909)
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VIAF / ODNB |
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Jane F. Worthington |
female |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
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Elizabeth Mary Lea Wright |
female |
correspondent |
10 October 1863 London, England
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4 October 1958 London, England
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English |
Dialectologist / Folklorist / Philologist |
VIAF |
Lea, later Wright, entered Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1887, where she attended Joseph Wright’s lectures. She later managed all the clerical labour on his major work, The English Dialect Dictionary, having married him in 1896. See further Wright (1932). |
William Aldis Wright |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1 August 1831 Beccles, Suffolk, England
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19 May 1914 Beccles, Suffolk, England
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English |
Literary scholar / Theologian |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Joseph Wright |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
31 October 1855 Thackley, Yorkshire, England
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27 February 1930 Thackley, Yorkshire, England
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English |
Dialectologist / Philologist |
VIAF / ODNB |
Wright was the editor of The English Dialect Dictionary, the clerical work for which was undertaken by Elizabeth Wright (née Lea), whom he married in 1896. See further Wright (1932). |
John Yeats |
male |
correspondent (no letters in pilot) |
1822
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14 June 1902
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Historian of commerce |
VIAF / ODNB |
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Charlotte Mary Yonge |
female |
correspondent |
11 August 1823
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24 March 1901
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Novelist |
VIAF / ODNB |
Highly regarded novelist, in later editions of the OED one of the most quoted female writers. ‘Sub-edited part of N, in collaboration with her cousin Henry Hucks Gibbs’ (Gilliver 2000–). |