Edwin Guest
John Watson-Gordon
Edwin Guest antiquary.
He was educated at
Called to the bar in 1828, he devoted himself, after some years of legal practice, to antiquarian and literary research.[2]
In 1838 he published his exhaustive 2-volume History of English Rhythms.LL.D. in the following year, and in 1854-1855 he was vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. Guest was a fellow of the Royal Society, and an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries of London.[2]
Offices held
- ^ "Guest, Edwin (GST819E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guest, Edwin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 673.
- ^ Guest, Edwin (1838). A History of English Rhythms. London: W. Pickering.
- ^ (Madison) Fiona Carolyn Marshall. ‘Edwin Guest: Philologist, Historian, and Founder of the Philological Society of London’. Language & History (July 2016); formerly Bulletin of the Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas 42, no. 1 (2004): 11–30, https://doi.org/10.1080/02674971.2004.11745588
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