Philologist, educated at King's College School Wimbledon, Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1878 to 1912. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873, which brought about the English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright from 1896 to 1905. He was the author of a number of textbooks, contributed freely to learned journals, and led the way in the study of English place names.
Philologist, educated at King's College School Wimbledon, Highgate School, and Christ's College, Cambridge, of which he became a fellow in July 1860. Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1878 to 1912. He founded the English Dialect Society in 1873, which brought about the English Dialect Dictionary, edited by Joseph Wright from 1896 to 1905. He was the author of a number of textbooks, contributed freely to learned journals, and led the way in the study of English place names.
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