Frederick James Furnivall
1825–1910
Philologist and editor. BA, Cambridge, 1846. Called to the bar, 1849. Honorary secretary of the Philological Society, 1853–1910; laid the foundations for the Oxford English dictionary. Involved in founding the Working Men’s College, 1854. Founded a series of literary and philological societies.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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