Henry Watson Fowler
Lexicographer, Author
1858 – 1933
Who was Henry Watson Fowler?
Henry Watson Fowler was an English schoolmaster, lexicographer and commentator on the usage of the English language. He is notable for both A Dictionary of Modern English Usage and his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and was described by The Times as "a lexicographical genius".
After an Oxford education, Fowler was a schoolmaster until his middle age and then worked in London as a freelance writer and journalist, but was not very successful. In partnership with his brother Francis, and beginning in 1906, he began publishing seminal grammar, style and lexicography books. After his brother's death in 1918, he completed the works on which they had collaborated and edited additional works.
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- Born
- Mar 10, 1858
Tonbridge - Also known as
- H. W. Fowler
- Siblings
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Balliol College
- Rugby School
- Lived in
- Guernsey
- Died
- Dec 26, 1933
Hinton St George
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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