Walter William Skeat

Walter William Skeat, FBA (21 November 1835 – 6 October 1912) was a British philologist and Anglican deacon. The pre-eminent British philologist of his time, he was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom.

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  • In Notes and Queries, 6th ser., vol. 9 (January–June 1884), p. 499. Quoted as an epigraph in W. F. H. King (ed.) Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), title page

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