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Skeat, Walter William (1835-1912), philologist

Kenneth Sisam and Charlotte Brewer

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

ISBN: 9780198614128
Published online September 2004 | | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36116
Skeat, Walter William (1835-1912), philologist

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Skeat, Walter William (1835-1912), philologist, was born at Mount Street, Park Lane, London, on 21 November 1835, the second son of William Skeat and his wife, Sarah Bluck. He attended King's College School, Strand, where Thomas Oswald Cockayne, one of the best Anglo-Saxon scholars of the time, was his form-master. ...

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