William Collins

male, deceased (1853)
Scottish, dictionary, schoolmaster, atlas, religion, Publisher
William Collins (1789-1853) was a Scottish schoolmaster and publisher. Collins was born near Glasgow in 1789. In 1819 he set up a publishing...

Robert Scott

male, deceased (1887)
Oxford University, Rochester, Lexicographer, oxford university press, Philologist, British…dictionary
Robert Scott was a 19th-century British academic philologist and a Fellow (later Master) of Balliol College, Oxford University. He served as Dean...
A. S. Hornby

A. S. Hornby

male, deceased (1978)
World War II, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Language education, English language learning and teaching, bulletin, foreign learners…dictionary, The Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary, A Learner's Dictionary of Current English, monolingual learners' dictionary
Albert Sidney Hornby, usually just A. S. Hornby was an English grammarian, lexicographer and pioneer in the field of English language learning and...
Sidney Lee

Sidney Lee

male, deceased (1926)
Jewish, writer, historian, english literature, Biographer, bloomsbury…dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography
Sir Sidney Lee was an English biographer and critic. He was born Solomon Lazarus Lee at 12 Keppel Street, Bloomsbury, London and educated at the...
J. A. Cuddon

J. A. Cuddon

male, deceased (1996)
writer, rugby, dictionary, author, teacher, English…Dictionary of Sport and Games, Dictionary of Literary Terms
J. A. Cuddon (June 2, 1928 - March 12, 1996), was an erudite English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. Most widely-known for his...
Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright

male, deceased (1930)
Yorkshireman, From West Yorkshire, The Years, The Pargiters, The Life of Joseph Wright, Grammar of the Gothic Language…dictionary
Joseph Wright FBA, in which she makes reference to their various walking and cycle trips into the Yorkshire Dales, as well as various articles and...
Gustav Davidson

Gustav Davidson

male, deceased (1971)
Columbia University, Mortal Hunger, dictionary, Twenty Sonnets, library of congress, lilith
Gustav Davidson (1895 - 1971) was a poet, writer, and publisher. He is best remembered as the author of "A Dictionary of Angels, Including the...
Samuel Lee

Samuel Lee

male, deceased (1852)
Christian Hebraist, lexicon, shropshire, dictionary, Orientalist, maori
Samuel Lee was an English Orientalist, born in Shropshire; professor at Cambridge, first of Arabic and then of Hebrew language; was the author of a...
Clive Upton

Clive Upton

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

Jean Nicot

male, deceased (1600)
From Nimes, Lisbon, Thresor de la langue françoyse, dictionaries, Nîmes, diplomat…dictionary
Jean Nicot, was a French diplomat and scholar. Born in Nîmes, in the south of France, he was French ambassador in Lisbon, Portugal from 1559 to 1...