Mont Follick

Mont Follick

Dr. Mont Follick (1887 – 10 December 1958)[1] was a British Labour Party politician, and a campaigner for spelling reform. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Loughborough from 1945 to 1955, having previously held the post of professor of English at the University of Madrid in Spain.[2] In 1949 and again in 1952 he introduced private member's bills in the UK parliament for the reform of English spelling.

Follick was also the founder and proprietor of the Regent School of Languages (now part of the University of Westminster). On his death, he bequeathed the substantial sums raised by this venture to found and endow a professor's chair of Comparative Philology "in which spelling reform (not merely the teaching of reading) should form a principal part".[3] The bequest was finally accepted by the University of Manchester, and a chair bearing Follick's name is still in existence.

References

  1. ^ "Historical list of MPs: constituencies beginning with "L", part 4". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Lcommons4.htm. Retrieved 8 January 2010. 
  2. ^ Obituary, Time magazine, 22 December 1958
  3. ^ Spelling Progress Bulletin, Vol. XV, 1975

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Lawrence Kimball
Member of Parliament for Loughborough
19451955
Succeeded by
John Desmond Cronin



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