List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary
The following writers contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Chief editors
| Name | Dates of chief editorship | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Herbert Coleridge | 1858–61 | Preliminary work. Died in office. |
Frederick J. Furnivall |
1861–70 | Preliminary work. Resigned. |
| James Murray | 1879–1915 | 1st edition. Died in office. |
| Henry Bradley | 1915–23 | 1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office. |
| William Craigie | 1923–33 | 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Onions. Joined 1901. |
| Charles Talbut Onions | 1923–33 | 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Craigie. Joined 1914. |
| Robert Burchfield | 1957–86 | 2nd Supplement |
| Edmund Weiner | 1985–89 | 2nd edition jointly with Simpson; also worked on 3rd edition. Joined 1977. |
| John Simpson | 1985–2013 | 2nd edition jointly with Weiner; 3rd edition chief editor from 1993. Joined 1976. |
| Michael Proffitt | 2013– | 3rd edition. Joined 1989. |
Other contributors
- Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham
- Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet
- George Latimer Apperson
- Edward Arber
- Henry Spencer Ashbee[2]
- John Christopher Atkinson
- Clarence Barnhart
- George Fielding Blandford[3]
- Katherine Harris Bradley[2]
- James Britten
- Elizabeth Brown[4]
- Thomas Nadauld Brushfield
- Ingram Bywater
- Robert William Chapman
- Albert Huntington Chester
- Andrew Clark (priest)
- Edith Emma Cooper[2]
- Edward Dowden
- Thomas Messinger Drown
- Robert Druitt
- Jonathan Eastwood
- Alexander John Ellis[2]
- Robinson Ellis
- Frederick Thomas Elworthy
- Daniel Silvan Evans
- Wendell Phillips Garrison
- Peter Gilliver
- Alexander Balloch Grosart
- Fitzedward Hall
- Beatrice Harraden
- Joyce Hawkins
- William Carew Hazlitt
- Richard Oliver Heslop
- William Ballantyne Hodgson
- Clement Mansfield Ingleby
- Benjamin Daydon Jackson
- Benjamin Jowett
- Thomas Hewitt Key
- Friedrich Kluge
- Marghanita Laski
- John Knox Laughton
- John Wickham Legg
- Henry Liddell
- Augustus Edward Hough Love
- Falconer Madan
- Frederic William Maitland
- Francis March
- David Samuel Margoliouth
- George Perkins Marsh
- Eleanor Marx[5]
- Paul Meyer
- William Chester Minor
- William Morfill
- Anna Morpurgo Davies
- Edward Ellis Morris
- Richard Morris
- Horatio Mosley Moule
- Max Müller
- H. J. R. Murray
- Margaret Murray
- Eadweard Muybridge[2]
- Arthur Napier
- Alfred Newton
- Edward Nicholson
- Edward Peacock
- Flinders Petrie
- John Thompson Platts
- Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
- Frederick York Powell
- L. F. Powell
- Hereward Thimbleby Price
- Richard Bissell Prosser
- Philip Pye-Smith
- John Rhys
- John Richardson
- Charles Pierre Henri Rieu
- Henry Roscoe
- William Michael Rossetti
- Jesse Sheidlower
- Walter William Skeat
- William Barclay Squire
- John Stainer
- W. H. Stevenson
- William Stubbs
- Edward Sugden
- Charles William Sutton
- Henry Sweet
- Joseph Robson Tanner
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Lucy Toulmin Smith
- Paget Toynbee
- Richard Chenevix Trench
- Henry Frederic Turle
- Edward Burnett Tylor
- Herbert Warren
- Hensleigh Wedgwood
- Richard Francis Weymouth
- Richard Grant White
- William Dwight Whitney
- R. J. Whitwell
- Joseph Wright[2]
- Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Henry Yule
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann
See also
References
- ^ "Dictionary Editors". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.; "Dictionary milestones in reverse order". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f Dirda, Michael (11 October 2023). "The most influential crowdsourcing project happened long before Wikipedia". Washington Post.
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- ^ Duncan, Dennis (13 October 2023). "In the Beginning Were the Word Nerds". The New York Times.