Charles Talbut Onions
Charles Talbut Onions (10 September 1873 – 8 January 1965) was an English
Life
C. T. Onions was born in
Onions early came under the influence of A. J. Smith, the headmaster of the
James Murray invited Onions to join the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) at Oxford in 1895, and in 1914 he began independent editorial work with his own assistants.[4] His Shakespeare Glossary was published in 1911; he co-edited Shakespeare's England: an account of the life and manners of his age (2 volumes; 1916) and, in 1933, he co-edited the OED Supplement with William Craigie. Following the death of William Little in 1922, he assumed the editorship of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Onions served as a fellow and librarian of
Personal life
In 1907 he married Angela (1883–1941), daughter of Rev. Arthur Blythman, rector of
Anne Onions, one of his daughters, worked for many years in the Earth Sciences department at the University of Oxford as the departmental secretary and financial administrator.[5]
Archives
Onions' letters are held at the
References
- ^ , Oxford University Press, 2004
- ^ Brief Lives, Paul Johnson, Arrow Books, 2011, p. 216
- ^ "C. T. Onions," Oxford English Dictionary website: "In 1914, he was appointed as the fourth editor and was responsible in that capacity for the sections Su-Sz, Wh-Working, and X, Y, Z. Onions enjoyed saying that he contributed the final entry to the Dictionary – a cross-reference Zyxt, which since it was 'the last word', was later made the name of a soap."
- ^ K. M. Elisabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977), 281.
- ^ Vincent, E.A. (1994). Geology and Mineralogy at Oxford 1860–1986: History and Reminiscence. Oxford (Dept. of Earth Sciences). pp. 1–245.
- ^ "Charles Talbut Onions letters - 1899-1962". calmview.bham.ac.uk. Retrieved 19 February 2021.