biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1789–1876)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born in Derbyshire, C England, UK. Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford from 1858, he compiled An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1838), and in 1867 gave £10 000 to endow a chair of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. |
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