Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld

Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945) was a notable English lexicographer and philologist.

Early life

Wyld was born in 1870 and attended Charterhouse School from 1883 to 1885; he was then privately educated in Lausanne from 1885 to 1888. He studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Heidelberg and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Academic career

From 1904 to 1920, he was Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool. He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1920 until his death in 1945.

Publications

Wyld was the author of many papers and books during his career. His Universal Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1932.

Honors

Wyld was awarded the British Academy Biennial Prize for contributions to the study of the English Language and Literature in 1932.

Quotations

• No gentleman goes on a bus ^[1]

Bibliography (selected)

• 1905: The Teaching of Reading in Training Colleges
• 1919: A History of Modern Colloquial English

References

• "WYLD, Professor Henry Cecil Kennedy (1870-1945)". AIM25. Retrieved 2008-07-21. 

External links

• Works by or about Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld at Internet Archive