Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld [SEP] date of birth
Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld
Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (1870–1945) was a notable English lexicographer and philologist.
Early life.
Wyld was born in 1870 and attended Charterhouse School from 1883 to 1885; he was then privately educated in Lausanne from 1885 to 1888. He studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Heidelberg and Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
Academic career.
From 1904 to 1920, he was Baines Professor of English Language and Philology, University of Liverpool. He was Merton Professor of English
right arm, and was invalided out of the army in 1919.
Orton died in Leeds on 7 March 1975 following a stroke.
Academic Career.
After leaving the army, Orton went to Merton College, Oxford, where he studied under Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld and Joseph Wright, author of the English Dialect Dictionary (McDavid, 1976). He then spent several years on the staff of Uppsala University in Sweden until 1928 when he was appointed to a lectureship at King's College, Newcastle (now the University