Clive Upton

Clive Upton

male
oxford university press, short vowel, Concise Oxford Dictionary, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, dictionaries, dialectology…BritishEnglish, oxford english dictionary
Clive Upton is professor of English language at the University of Leeds, England, specializing in dialectology and sociolinguistics. He has also...

Bricklayer

male
mason, journeyman, Construction trades worker, Australian English, blocks, BritishEnglish…English, British
A bricklayer or mason is a tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The term also refers to personnel who use blocks to construct...
Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe

male, deceased (1601) (Greenwich, United States)
Lutheran, New Latin author, American English, BritishEnglish, University of Rostock, Danish
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman from the region of Scania (in modern-day Sweden), best known today as an early...

Keith L. Moore

male
professor, King Abdulaziz University, American English, BritishEnglish, embryology, surgery
Keith L. Moore is a professor emeritus in the division of anatomy (department of surgery), former Chair of anatomy and associate dean for Basic...
Ruby Murray

Ruby Murray

female, deceased (1996)
musician, singer, belfast, Irish, ruby, torquay…BritishEnglish
Ruby Murray (b. March 29 1935, Belfast, Northern Ireland - December 17 1996, Torquay, England) was a popular singer. Murray was born on the...

Gladys Yang

female, deceased (1999)
Cultural Revolution, From Beijing, Translator, Chinese literature, British, Anglo-Chinese…BritishEnglish
Gladys Yang was a British translator of Chinese literature, the wife of another noted translator Yang Xianyi. Her father was a missionary to China,...

William Q de Funiak

male, deceased (1981)
writer, Lexicographer, dictionary, American, Legal writer, BritishEnglish…American English
William Quinby De Funiak (November 16, 1901 - November 2 1981), who wrote as William Q. De Funiak, was an American writer and law academic who...
Frederick Trent Stanley

Frederick Trent Stanley

male, deceased (1883)
Tool, plane, bailey, American, ruler, chisel…BritishEnglish
Frederick Trent Stanley (August 12, 1802- August 2, 1883) was an American industrialist. He founded Stanley's Bolt Manufactory of New Britain,...
Dick Valentine

Dick Valentine

male
new york state, The White Album, Attica Prison riots, National Lampoon Radio Hour, BritishEnglish, fictional…British
Dick Valentine was a fictional radio call-in show host played by actor and comic Richard Belzer on segments of the "National Lampoon Radio Hour",...