Robert Burchfield

Robert Burchfield

Robert William Burchfield CNZM CBE (27 January 1923 – 5 July 2004)was a scholar, writer, and lexicographer.

Born in Wanganui, New Zealand, he studied at Victoria University in Wellington and, later, at Magdalen College, Oxford University in England on a Rhodes Scholarship, where he was mentored by J.R.R. Tolkien. From 1957 to 1986 he edited the second Supplement to the "Oxford English Dictionary". Subsequently he produceda controversial, substantially rewritten edition of"Modern English Usage", the famous style guideto the English language by Henry Watson Fowler.

He died at the age of 81.

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/06/db0601.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/07/06/ixportal.html Obituary of Robert Burchfield] "(Daily Telegraph)"
* [http://oed.com/about/editors/burchfield.html "Oxford English Dictionary" website entry for Robert Burchfield]


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