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Weekley, Ernest (1865-1954), linguist and writer

Adrian Room

in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

ISBN: 9780198614128
Published online September 2004 | | DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/38972
Weekley, Ernest (1865-1954), linguist and writer

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Weekley, Ernest (1865-1954), linguist and writer, was born on 27 April 1865 at New End, Hampstead, London, the second of the nine children of Charles Weekley (b. 1834), a relieving officer for the Hampstead board of guardians, and Agnes (b. 1840), daughter of George McCowen, a schoolmaster and parish clerk ...

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