Record ID:
36137483 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50027721
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1858-03-10
  • Tonbridge (England)
Death:
  • 1933-12-26
  • Hinton St. George (England)
Occupations:
  • Teachers Authors Lexicographers
Used for:
  • Fowler, Henry Watson, 1858-1933
Notes:
  • Fowler, F. G. The works of Lucian of Samosata, 1905.
  • Fowler's dictionary of modern English usage, 2015 title page (first edition H.W. Fowler) jacket (Henry Watson Fowler worked as a teacher and freelance writer)
  • His Fowler's Modern English usage, c1983 CIP t.p. (H.W. Fowler)
  • Wikipedia, April 5, 2016 (Henry Watson Fowler; 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;" born March 10, 1858 in in Tonbridge, Kent, England; 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; he died December 26, 1933 in Hinton St George, Somerset, England
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)20502
  • abv02356783
  • 000001143967
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX45899
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC OCoLC UPB
Authentication code:
  • kin