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Linguists from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

30 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Agnes O'FarrellyAuthor · BooksAgnes O'Farrelly (born Agnes Winifred Farrelly; 24 June 1874 – 5 November 1951; Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh), also known by her nom-de-plume Uan Uladh, was an academic and professor of Irish at…
Alexander Keith JohnstonAuthor · Maps and atlasesAlexander Keith Johnston FRSE FRGS FGS FEGS LLD (died 9 July 1871) was a Scottish geographer and cartographer.
Augusta, Lady GregoryAuthor · BooksIsabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.
Charles Lock EastlakePhotographer · PhotographySir Charles Lock Eastlake (17 November 1793 – 24 December 1865) was a British painter, gallery director, collector and writer of the 19th century.
Charlotte GuestAuthor · BooksLady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest (née Bertie; 19 May 1812 – 15 January 1895), later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern…
Douglas YoungAuthor · BooksDouglas Cuthbert Colquhoun Young (5 June 1913 – 23 October 1973) was a Scottish poet, scholar, translator and politician.
Fleeming JenkinAuthor · BooksHenry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE (25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was a British engineer, inventor, economist, linguist, actor and dramatist known as the inventor of the cable car or…
Friedrich Max MüllerAuthor · BooksFriedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a German-born British comparative philologist and Orientalist.
George BorrowAuthor · BooksGeorge Henry Borrow (5 July 1803 – 26 July 1881) was an English writer of novels and of travel based on personal experiences in Europe.
George Campbell HayAuthor · BooksGeorge Campbell Hay (1915–1984) was a Scottish Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote in Scottish Gaelic, Scots and English. He used the patronymic Deòrsa Mac Iain Dheòrsa.
George ChapmanAuthor · BooksGeorge Chapman (c. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
Harriet MartineauAuthor · BooksHarriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.[2] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte,…
I. A. RichardsAuthor · BooksIvor Armstrong Richards CH (26 February 1893 – 7 September 1979), known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, poet, and rhetorician.
James BeattieAuthor · BooksJames Beattie was a linguist, poet, translator, philosopher, writer and literary critic (1735–1803). He was born in Laurencekirk and died in Aberdeen.
John CrawfurdAuthor · BooksJohn Crawfurd (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, British colonial administrator, diplomat and writer who served as the second and last resident of Singapore.
John FlorioAuthor · BooksGiovanni Florio (1552 or 1553 – 1625), known as John Florio, was an English humanist, linguist, writer, translator, lexicographer, and language tutor.
John Gibson LockhartAuthor · BooksJohn Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor.
Lewis SpenceAuthor · BooksJames Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.
Nahum SokolowAuthor · BooksNahum ben Joseph Samuel Sokolow (Nachum ben Yosef Shmuel Soqolov; 10 January 1859 – 17 May 1936) was a Jewish-Polish writer, translator, and journalist, the fifth President of the World…
Naomi MitchisonAuthor · BooksNaomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet.
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Robert MorrisonAuthor · BooksRobert Morrison, FRS (5 January 1782 – 1 August 1834) was a British Protestant missionary to Portuguese Macao, Qing-era Guangdong, and Dutch Malacca, who was also a pioneering sinologist,…
Sara ColeridgeAuthor · BooksSara Coleridge (23 December 1802 – 3 May 1852) was an English writer and translator. She was the third child and only daughter of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his wife Sara Fricker.
Sylvia Townsend WarnerAuthor · BooksSylvia Nora Townsend Warner (6 December 1893 – 1 May 1978) was an English novelist, poet and musicologist, known for works such as the novels Lolly Willowes (1926) and The Corner That Held…
Thomas De QuinceyAuthor · BooksThomas Penson De Quincey (Thomas Penson Quincey; 15 August 17858 December 1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English…
Thomas William Rhys DavidsAuthor · BooksThomas William Rhys Davids (12 May 1843 – 27 December 1922) was a Welsh scholar of the Pāli language and founder of the Pali Text Society.
Victoria, Lady WelbyArtist · PaintingsVictoria, Lady Welby (27 April 1837 – 29 March 1912), more correctly Lady Welby-Gregory, was a self-educated British philosopher of language, musician and watercolourist.
Vyvyan HollandAuthor · BooksVyvyan Beresford Holland, (born Vyvyan Oscar Beresford Wilde; 3 November 1886 – 10 October 1967) was an English author and translator.
William Edmondstoune AytounAuthor · BooksProfessor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Edinburgh University (1845–65)
William SmithAuthor · BooksSir William Smith (20 May 1813 – 7 October 1893) was an English lexicographer. He became known for his advances in the teaching of Greek and Latin in schools.

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