People

Below are listed the names and brief biographical details of James Murray and many of his correspondents. The list comprises the authors and addressees of letters included in this edition (marked ‘correspondent’), as well as authors and addressees who are not yet included in the edition but whose presence in the archives has been documented by the editors (marked ‘correspondent (no letters online)’). There are also a few individuals for whom no correspondence with Murray exists (or has yet been found), but who are included (marked ‘non-correspondent’) because of their connection to the OED or to the Murray family, or because they were otherwise well-known.

Name	Sex	Role	Born	Died	Nationality	Occupation	Authorities	Note
Edwin Abbott Abbott	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 December 1838 Marylebone, Middlesex, England	12 October 1926	English	Headmaster of City of London School (1865–1889) / Author	VIAF / ODNB
William Johnston Anderson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 June 1830 Arbroath, Angus, Scotland	1900	Scottish	Insurance agent
Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet	male	correspondent (no letters online)	14 November 1843 Walberton, Sussex, England	4 June 1914	English	Politician / Lawyer / Warden of All Souls College, Oxford (1881–1914)	VIAF / ODNB
George Latimer Apperson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1857	17 January 1937	British	Author / School inspector	VIAF	‘Reader for OED (credited with 11,000 quotations in 1888); sub-edited in B and C; later drew heavily on OED in compiling his historical dictionary English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases (1929); also produced A Jane Austen Dictionary (1932)’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Edward Arber	male	correspondent	4 December 1836 London, England	23 November 1912	English	Professor of English Language and Literature at Mason Science College, Birmingham (1881–1894)	VIAF / ODNB	‘Edited many early modern texts for publication or reprinting. Friend of Murray, whom he supplied with copies of his “English Reprints” series for reading, and with whom he corresponded on many specific points’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Major General Richard Drapes Ardagh	male	correspondent (no letters online)	21 December 1823 Madras, India	29 April 1899	English	Army officer		‘Soldier, serving in India and Burma; Commissioner of Pegu, 1863-78; also an authority on Burmese, which he taught at Oxford and Cambridge. Read for OED (credited with 8,400 quotations in 1884)’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith	male	correspondent (no letters online)	12 September 1852 Morley, Yorkshire, England	15 February 1928	English	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1908–1916)	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour	male	correspondent	31 March 1853 Edinburgh, Scotland	30 November 1922	Scottish	Botanist	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Godfrey Balk	male	correspondent	30 September 1857 Ipswich, Suffolk, England	3 December 1915	English	Lexicographer		Balk was one of Murray’s editorial assistants on the OED from 1885 to 1913.
Theodore Moses Barber	male	correspondent (no letters online)	12 September 1846 Epping, New Hampshire, United States of America	24 November 1915	American	Professor of Latin at the Western University of Pittsburgh / Professor of English at the Western University of Pittsburgh
Elsie Mayflower Ruthven (Murray) Barling	female	non-correspondent	1882 Mill Hill, London, England	1952	English	Lexicographer		Elsie Murray was the eighth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as an editorial assistant on the OED from 1899 to 1920, when she emigrated to South Africa.
Katharine Lee Bates	female	correspondent (no letters online)	12 August 1859 Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States of America	28 March 1929	American	Author / Literary scholar	VIAF / ANB
Beatrice Batty	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1833 London, England	30 April 1933	English	Editor / Novelist	VIAF
Alexander Beazeley	male	correspondent (no letters online)	6 August 1830 Brighton, Sussex, England	1 December 1905	English	Civil engineer	VIAF
Henry Charles Beeching	male	correspondent (no letters online)	15 May 1859 London, England	25 February 1919	English	Author / Dean of Norwich	VIAF / ODNB
Alexander Graham Bell	male	correspondent (no letters online)	3 March 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland	2 August 1922	Scottish	Inventor of the telephone / Teacher	VIAF / ODNB
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell	female	correspondent (no letters online)	14 July 1868 Washington Hall, Durham, England	12 July 1926	English	Archaeologist / Diplomat / Travel writer	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Thomas Hugh Bell, 2nd Baronet	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 February 1844 Newcastle upon Tyne, England	29 June 1931	English	Ironmaster / Politician	VIAF
John Thomas Bellows	male	correspondent (no letters online)	18 January 1831 Liskeard, Cornwall, England	5 May 1902	English	Archaeologist / Lexicographer / Printer	VIAF / ODNB
Matilda Barbara Betham-Edwards	female	correspondent (no letters online)	4 March 1836 Westerfield, Suffolk, England	4 January 1919	English	Novelist / Travel writer	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Arthur John Bigge, Baron Stamfordham	male	correspondent (no letters online)	18 June 1849 Linden Hall, Northumberland, England	31 March 1931	English	Courtier	VIAF / ODNB
Adam William Black	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 February 1784 Edinburgh, Scotland	24 January 1874	Scottish	Politician / Publisher
John Stuart Blackie	male	correspondent (no letters online)	28 July 1809 Glasgow, Scotland	2 March 1895	Scottish	Classicist / Scottish Gaelic scholar	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Thring Bleeck	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1828/1829	24 July 1885	English	Journalist		‘Reader for OED (credited with 2,300 quotations in 1884)’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Louis Lucien Bonaparte	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 January 1813 Grimley, Worcestershire, England	3 November 1891	French	Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
John Frederick Boyes	male	correspondent (no letters online)		13 December 1896		Antiquarian / Wine merchant
Eleanor Kate (Hides) Bradley	female	non-correspondent	?	?	English	Housewife		Eleanor Kate Bradley was married to Henry Bradley, with whom she had five children, including Eleanor Spencer Bradley.
Eleanor Spencer Bradley	female	non-correspondent	1875	24 September 1950	English	Lexicographer		Eleanor Spencer Bradley was the daughter of Henry and Eleanor Kate Bradley. She worked as an editorial assistant on the OED from 1897 to 1932, first with her father, later with Onions.
Henry Bradley	male	correspondent	3 December 1845 Manchester, England	23 May 1923	English	Philologist / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	Henry Bradley was married to Eleanor Kate Bradley, with whom he had five children, including Eleanor Spencer Bradley. After performing some trial work on the OED in 1885, Bradley was made an editor in 1886. In 1915, he succeeded Murray as the chief editor, a position he held until his death.
Henry Bradshaw	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 February 1831 London, England	10 February 1886	English	Bibliographer / University Librarian at Cambridge (1867–1886)	VIAF / ODNB
Edward Lyall Brandreth	male	correspondent	4 February 1823 Liverpool, Lancashire, England	10 December 1907	English	Civil servant / Asian scholar		‘Joined the Philological Society in 1872, and regularly served on its Council. Sub-edited in G, H, K, and N; also read for OED, supplied many quotation desiderata, and assisted for many years by reading proofs and by verifying references at the British Museum’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Robert Brickersteth	male	correspondent (no letters online)	24 June 1847	10 July 1916	English	Civil servant / Politician
Robert Seymour Bridges	male	correspondent	23 October 1844 Walmer, Kent, England	21 April 1930	English	Poet / Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1913–1930)	VIAF / ODNB	Bridges lived at Yattendon, a village near Newbury, Berkshire, from 1882 to 1907, when he moved to Boars Hill in Oxford. Trained in medicine, he ceased to practise as a doctor after contracting pneumonia in 1881, thereafter devoting his life to literary pursuits. Dates of his letters to Murray so far identified span 1907–1912. Bridges was a close friend of Henry Bradley, whose Collected Papers he published in 1928 (after Bradley’s death in 1923) together with a memoir. Alongside Bradley, Walter Raleigh (1861–1922; first holder of the Chair of English Literature at Oxford), and Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946), Bridges was associated with the creation of the Society of Pure English in 1913.
James Britten	male	correspondent (no letters online)	3 May 1846 London, England	8 October 1924	English	Botanist	VIAF / ODNB
Elizabeth Brown	female	correspondent (no letters online)	6 August 1830 Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England	5 March 1899	English	Astronomer / Meteorologist	ODNB	Like her sister Jemima E. A. Brown, ‘read for OED (credited with 3,000 quotations in 1884)’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Jemima E. A. Brown	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1832	19 February 1907	English	Astronomer / Poet		Sister of Elizabeth Brown. ‘Reader for OED (credited with 4,500 quotations in 1884), and from 1882 one of its most indefatigable sub-editors, working on B, C, D, I, and P; close friend of Murray’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Robert Bruce	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 August 1829 Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland	6 November 1908	Scottish	Congregational minister
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce	male	correspondent	10 May 1838 Belfast, Northern Ireland	22 January 1922	Northern Irish	Jurist / Historian / Politician	VIAF / ODNB
James Brydon	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1822 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland		Scottish
Mary Hyde Buckingham	female	correspondent (no letters online)	27 January 1862 Massachusetts, United States of America	14 February 1949	American	Classics teacher
Ingram Bywater	male	correspondent (no letters online)	27 June 1840 London, England	18 December 1914	English	Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
A. Caland	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1854/1855	1910	Dutch	English teacher
Lewis Campbell	male	correspondent (no letters online)	3 September 1830 Edinburgh, Scotland	25 October 1908	Scottish	Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Cannan	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 August 1858 Richmond, Surrey, England	15 December 1919	English	Classicist / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1898–1919)	ODNB
Henry William Chandler	male	correspondent (no letters online)	31 January 1828 London, England	16 May 1889	English	Classicist	ODNB
Robert William Chapman	male	correspondent	5 October 1881 Eskbank, Midlothian, Scotland	20 April 1960	Scottish	Literary scholar / Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1906–1920) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1920–1942)	VIAF / ODNB
William Chappell	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 November 1809 London, England	20 August 1888	English	Businessman / Musicologist	VIAF / ODNB
Thomas Kelly Cheyne	male	correspondent (no letters online)	18 September 1841 London, England	16 February 1915	English	Theologian	VIAF / ODNB
Alonzo Church	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1870	21 February 1937	American	Civil servant
James Toshach Clark	male	correspondent (no letters online)				Keeper of the Advocates’ Library (1877–1906)
Herbert Coleridge	male	non-correspondent	7 October 1830 London, England	23 April 1861	English	Editor / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB	The grandson of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and a member of the London Philological Society, Herbert Coleridge was appointed the first editor of the Society’s dictionary (what would become the OED) in 1859. He died in the preliminary stages of the work.
Pieter Jacob Cosijn	male	correspondent (no letters online)	29 November 1840 Rijswijk, Netherlands	26 August 1899	Dutch	Lexicographer / Philologist
Ethelwyn Edith Agnes Ruthven (Murray) Cousins	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1878 Mill Hill, London, England	1945	English			Ethelwyn Cousins (known to her family as Wynnie) was the sixth child of James and Ada Murray.
Lady Jessie Kinmond (Hutchen) Craigie	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1864/1865	1947		Translator		Jessie Craigie assisted her husband William Craigie in his work on the OED and collaborated with him on a translation of Fairy Tales and Other Stories by Hans Christian Anderson (1914).
Sir William Alexander Craigie	male	correspondent	13 August 1867 Dundee, Angus, Scotland	2 September 1957	Scottish	Professor of English at the University of Chicago (1925-–1936 / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	After beginning work as an editorial assistant to Bradley in 1897, Craigie was made an editor of the OED in 1901. In 1923, he succeeded Bradley as the chief editor, a position he held until the publication of the first Supplement in 1933. He also collaborated with his wife Jessie Craigie on a translation of Fairy Tales and Other Stories by Hans Christian Anderson (1914). See further EOED.
William John Eden Crane	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1832/1833	1910		Technical writer
Robert Needham Cust	male	correspondent (no letters online)	24 February 1821	27 October 1909		Author / Civil servant / Judge	VIAF
Thomas Dent	male	correspondent (no letters online)				Teacher
Albert Venn Dicey	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 February 1835 Claybrooke Hall, Leicestershire, England	7 April 1922	English	Jurist	VIAF / ODNB
Effie Dickson	female	correspondent (no letters online)	29 March 1846 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland	16 May 1929	Scottish	Poet
James Dixon	male	correspondent	12 December 1813 London, England	3 January 1896	English	Ophthalmic surgeon	VIAF	‘Author of Diseases of the Eye (1855). In 1870, because of his wife’s illness, he gave up his London practice and retired to Dorking, Surrey, taking up literary and historical interests. Contributed quotations to OED, including many desiderata’, and gave considerable help with the history of medical terms (Gilliver 2000–).
Charles Edward Doble	male	correspondent (no letters online)	5 March 1847 Peckham, Surrey, England	22 September 1914	English	Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1879–1909)	VIAF
Edward Spencer Dodgson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	18 November 1857 Woodford, Essex, England	9 October 1922	English	Basque philologist	VIAF
Henry Austin Dodson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	8 January 1840 Plymouth, Devon, England	2 September 1921	English	Essayist / Poet
Katherine Fitzroy Druitt	female	correspondent (no letters online)	6 July 1858 London, England	30 June 1887	English
Edward Gordon Duff	male	correspondent (no letters online)	16 February 1863 Liverpool, Lancashire, England	28 September 1924	English	Bibliographer	VIAF / ODNB
Stephen Troyte Dunn	male	correspondent	26 August 1868 Bristol, England	18 April 1938	English	Botanist / Private Secretary to William Turner Thiselton-Dyer (1898–1901)	VIAF
George Eliot(Mary Anne (Evans) Lewes)	female	correspondent	22 November 1819	22 December 1880	English	Novelist / Poet	VIAF / ODNB
William Hugh Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 3rd Earl of Minto	male	correspondent (no letters online)	19 March 1814	17 March 1891	English	Politician
Richard Thomas Elliott	male	correspondent	28 September 1863 Camberwell, Surrey, England	5 August 1926	English	Classicist	VIAF
Alexander John Ellis	male	correspondent (no letters online)	14 June 1814 Hoxton, Middlesex, England	28 October 1890	English	Mathematician / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
Robinson Ellis	male	correspondent	5 September 1834 Barming, Kent, England	9 October 1913	English	Classicist	VIAF / ODNB	‘Classical scholar, perhaps best known for his edition of Catullus. Close friend of Murray, whom he often accompanied on holidays abroad; regularly consulted for advice on particular words; also read for OED’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Frederick Thomas Elworthy	male	correspondent	10 January 1830 Wellington, Somerset, England	13 December 1907	English	Philologist / Antiquarian	VIAF / ODNB	‘Wrote extensively on Somerset and Devon, including The West Somerset Word-Book (1886). Close friend of Murray. He and his family read for OED (credited between them with 12,900 quotations in 1884), and sub-edited part of D’ (Gilliver 2000–).
John Stephen Farmer	male	correspondent	7 March 1854 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England	18 January 1916	English	Author / Lexicographer / Spiritualist	VIAF
Joseph Thomas Fowler	male	correspondent (no letters online)	9 June 1833 Winterton, Lincolnshire, England	22 March 1924	English	Surgeon / Clergyman / Antiquarian	VIAF
Sir James George Frazer	male	correspondent	1 January 1854 Glasgow, Scotland	7 May 1941	Scottish	Anthropologist / Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
Edward Augustus Freeman	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 August 1823 Harborne, Staffordshire, England	16 March 1892	English	Historian	VIAF / ODNB
John Charles Freeman	male	correspondent (no letters online)	14 February 1842 Lisle, New York, United States of America	10 April 1911	American	Literary scholar	VIAF
Frederick Cornish Frost	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1855 Torquay, Devon, England	14 May 1914	English	Antiquarian / Auctioneer
Henry Frowde	male	correspondent (no letters online)	8 February 1841 Southsea, Hampshire, England	3 March 1927	English	Publisher to the University of Oxford (1883–1913)	VIAF / ODNB
Isaac Kaufmann Funk	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 September 1839 Clifton, Ohio, United States of America	4 April 1912	American	Lexicographer / Publisher	VIAF	Funk founded the publishing house Funk & Wagnalls, for which he edited A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893–1895).
Frederick James Furnivall	male	correspondent	4 February 1825 Egham, Surrey, England	2 July 1910	English	Editor / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB	A prominent member of the London Philological Society, Furnivall was appointed the editor of what would become the OED after the death of Herbert Coleridge in 1861. He carried no part of the dictionary through to publication and was succeeded by Murray in 1879. He ‘remained actively involved with the Dictionary until his death, as an advocate of the project, as a constant source of advice, by research in the British Museum, and as a tireless contributor of quotations (already credited with “about 30,000” in 1888), including a great many taken from his ordinary daily reading of newspapers and magazines’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Sir William Tennant Gairdner	male	correspondent (no letters online)	8 November 1824 Edinburgh, Scotland	28 June 1907	Scottish	Pathologist / Physician	VIAF / ODNB
Philip Lyttelton Gell	male	correspondent	29 April 1852 London, England	29 May 1926	English	Businessman / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1884–1898)	VIAF	As Secretary, Gell ‘appointed Henry Bradley to assist Murray; constantly sought to improve the rate of production’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham	male	correspondent	31 August 1819 London, England	13 September 1907	English	Banker / Businessman	VIAF / ODNB	‘Joined the Philological Society in 1859, and remained closely involved with OED for the rest of his life; became a close friend of Murray, whom he advised and helped in respect of both editorial and practical aspects of the work. Reader for OED; sub-edited in C, K, and Q’ and collaborated in his cousin Charlotte Yonge’s sub-editing part of N; ‘read and annotated the proofs of the first fascicle, and continued to help in this way for many years; consulted as an authority on financial terms. Also edited texts for the EETS and other societies’ (Gilliver 2000–).
J. Gibbs	male	correspondent (no letters online)
Henry Neville Gladstone, 1st Baron Gladstone of Hawarden	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 April 1852 London, England	28 April 1935	English	Businessman	ODNB
Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone	male	correspondent (no letters online)	7 January 1854 London, England	6 March 1930	English	Home Secretary of the United Kingdom (1905–1910) / Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1910–1914)	VIAF / ODNB
William Ewart Gladstone	male	correspondent	29 December 1809 Liverpool, Lancashire, England	19 May 1898	English	Author / Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868–1874, 1880–1885, 1886, 1892–1894)	VIAF / ODNB	Gladstone seems first to have met Murray when presenting prizes at Mill Hill School in the summer of 1880 at the start of his second term of office as Prime Minister. He ‘often stayed with the Earl of Aberdeen in the village and made a habit of dropping in to Murray’s workroom, prior to the family’s removal to Oxford, bringing other guests with him, to see how the work was progressing—expressing the “sorrowful conviction” that he would never see the completion of the work’ (Murray 1977: 186–187, quoting ‘Curiosus’ 1880: 263).
Alfred Denis Godley	male	correspondent (no letters online)	22 January 1856 Ashfield, Cavan, Ireland	27 June 1925	Irish	Classicist / Author	VIAF / ODNB
John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken	male	correspondent (no letters online)	17 June 1847 London, England	27 June 1932	English	Civil servant	VIAF / ODNB
Richard William Goulding	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1868 Louth, Lincolnshire, England	1929	English	Librarian / Local historian	VIAF
Charles Gray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1831/1832			Physician		Gray was a reader for the OED (Murray 1884).
Walter Gregor	male	correspondent (no letters online)	23 October 1825 Keith, Banffshire, Scotland	4 February 1897	Scottish	Clergyman / Editor / Folklorist	VIAF / ODNB
Elizabeth Grey	female	correspondent (no letters online)
Edward Everett Hale	male	correspondent (no letters online)	3 April 1822 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America	10 June 1909	American	Author / Clergyman / Historian	VIAF / ANB
Fitzedward Hall	male	correspondent (no letters online)	21 March 1825 Troy, New York, United States of America	1 February 1901	American	Asian scholar / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
Thomas Hallam	male	correspondent (no letters online)		7 September 1895	English	Philologist
J. Hamilton	male	correspondent
James Hammond	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 October 1850 Whitchurch-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England	29 August 1930	English	Mathematician
John Hancock	male	correspondent (no letters online)	24 February 1808 Newcastle upon Tyne, England	11 October 1890	English	Naturalist
Heywood Hardy	male	correspondent (no letters online)	25 November 1842 Chichester, Sussex, England	20 January 1933	English	Painter	VIAF
Thomas Hardy	male	correspondent	2 June 1840 Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, England	11 January 1928	English	Novelist / Poet	VIAF / ODNB
Harold Harley	male	correspondent (no letters online)				Teacher
Horace Henry Hart	male	correspondent (no letters online)	23 March 1840 Sudbury, Suffolk, England	9 October 1916	English	Controller of the Oxford University Press (1883–1915)	VIAF / ODNB
Edith Margaret Hastings	female	correspondent	1851	21 April 1941	British	Headmistress of Wimbledon High School (1880–1908) / School inspector		Hastings was the first Headmistress of Wimbledon High School (set up by the Girls’ Public Day School Company in 1880). She had moved to the school (aged 29) from a previous headship at Nottingham High School and left to become an Inspector of Secondary Schools.
Hartwig Richard Helwich	male	correspondent (no letters online)	9 December 1844 Königgrätz, Austria	1900	Austrian	Philologist
William Ernest Henley	male	correspondent	23 August 1849 Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England	11 July 1903	English	Author / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB
Sidney John Hervon Herrtage	male	non-correspondent	19 February 1845	October 1893	Irish	Lexicographer / Philologist		Herrtage ‘edited several texts for the EETS, including the late 15th-century glossary Catholicon Anglicum (published 1881), and for the English Dialect Society. Reader for OED; appointed by Murray as his first assistant in the Scriptorium in 1879, but was dismissed in 1882’ for the theft of reference books and the misappropriation of OED materials to work on another project, Cassell’s Encyclopædic Dictionary (1879–1888) (Gilliver 2000–).
Andrew John Herbertson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	11 October 1865 Galashiels, Selkirkshire, Scotland	15 July 1915	Scottish	Geographer	VIAF / ODNB
George Birkbeck Norman Hill	male	correspondent (no letters online)	7 June 1835 Tottenham, Middlesex, England	24 February 1903	English	Author / Editor	VIAF / ODNB
Wallace Henry Hills	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1863 Chiddingly, Sussex, England	5 January 1932		Journalist / Local historian
Louise Manning Hodgkins	female	correspondent (no letters online)	5 August 1846 Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States of America	28 November 1935		Literary scholar
Fenton John Anthony Hort	male	correspondent (no letters online)	23 April 1828 Dublin, Ireland	30 November 1892	Irish	Theologian	VIAF / ODNB
Jennett Humphreys	female	correspondent	17 April 1829 Cricklewood, Middlesex, England	6 February 1917	English	Biographer / Children’s author / Poet	VIAF	A prolific contributor to the dictionary (credited with 18,700 slips in 1888), Humphreys frequently advised Murray on the vocabulary of cooking (Gilliver 2000–). She also contributed to a sister enterprise to the OED, the Dictionary of National Biography, writing 98 biographies, many of them about women. She interviewed Murray in 1882 and published a valuable description of his Scriptorium, including his (or rather his wife Ada Murray’s) careful preservation of his correspondence (Humphreys 1882).
Sir Thomas Hunter	male	correspondent (no letters online)	9 June 1850 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland	25 August 1919	Scottish	Judge / Town Clerk of Edinburgh (1895–1918)
Richard Holt Hutton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 June 1826 Leeds, Yorkshire, England	9 September 1897	English	Journalist / Theologian	VIAF / ODNB
Georgina Frederica Jackson	female	correspondent (no letters online)	31 March 1824 Liverpool, Lancashire, England	16 October 1895	English	Dialectologist
William Wilberforce Jenkinson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1843	26 December 1928	English	Auctioneer / Land agent
Henry Jenner	male	correspondent (no letters online)	8 August 1848 St Columb Major, Cornwall	8 May 1934	English	Celtic scholar	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Stanger Jerram	male	correspondent (no letters online)	17 February 1838 Torquay, Devon, England	19 April 1914	English	Classicist / Editor	VIAF
Jones Daniel	male	correspondent (no letters online)	12 September 1881 London, England	4 December 1967	English	Phonetician	VIAF / ODNB
Benjamin Jowett	male	correspondent (no letters online)	15 April 1817 Camberwell, Surrey, England	1 October 1893	English	Delegate of Oxford University Press (1882–1886) / Master of Balliol College (1870–1893) / Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1882–1886)	VIAF / ODNB
Thomas Henry Kingerlee	male	correspondent	26 January 1843 Banbury, Oxfordshire, England	22 December 1928	English	Builder / Mayor of Oxford (1898–1899, 1911–1912)
Andrew Lang	male	correspondent (no letters online)	31 March 1844 Selkirk, Selkirkshire, Scotland	20 July 1912	Scottish	Classicist / Folklorist / Historian	VIAF / ODNB
Walter Leaf	male	correspondent (no letters online)	26 November 1852 Norwood, Surrey, England	8 March 1927	English	Banker / Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
James Lecky	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1855	30 March 1890	Irish	Phonetician
James Crawford Ledlie	male	correspondent (no letters online)	April 1860	1928	Irish	Jurist / Civil servant	VIAF
Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 February 1887 Saint Pierre, Mauritius	22 August 1968	Scottish	Civil servant / Economist	VIAF
Major John Henry Leslie	male	correspondent (no letters online)	April 1858 London, England	8 January 1943	Scottish	Army officer / Military historian	VIAF
Granville George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland	male	correspondent (no letters online)	11 May 1815 London, England	31 March 1891	English	Politician	VIAF / ODNB
Otto Theodor Leyde	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1835 Wehlau, Prussia	31 March 1891	Prussian	Painter
Henry George Liddell	male	correspondent (no letters online)	6 February 1811 Binchester, County Durham, England	18 January 1898	English	Greek–English lexicographer / Dean of Christ Church (1855–1891)	VIAF / ODNB
John Mason Lightwood	male	correspondent (no letters online)	6 July 1852 Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England	4 April 1947	English	Lawyer / Teacher	VIAF / ODNB
Gwyneth Nesta Lilian Ruthven (Murray) Logan	female	non-correspondent	1888 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England	1979	English	Teacher		Gwyneth Logan was the eleventh child of James and Ada Murray. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge in 1912 with a First in Mathematics and Physics.
James Russell Lowell	male	correspondent	22 February 1819 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America	12 August 1891	American	Diplomat / Poet / Chair of Belles Lettres at Harvard University (1856–1877)	VIAF / ANB
Henry Richard Luard	male	correspondent (no letters online)	17 August 1825 London, England	1 May 1891	English	Clergyman / University administrator	VIAF / ODNB
George Campbell Macaulay	male	correspondent (no letters online)	(6 August 1852 Hodnet, Shropshire, England	6 July 1915	English	Classicist	VIAF
Norman MacColl	male	correspondent (no letters online)	31 August 1843 Edinburgh, Scotland	16 December 1904	Scottish	Editor / Hispanist	VIAF
Falconer Madan	male	correspondent (no letters online)	15 April 1851 Cam, Gloucestershire, England	22 May 1935	English	Bibliographer / Bodley’s Librarian (1912–1919)	VIAF / ODNB
Frederic William Maitland	male	correspondent (no letters online)	28 May 1850 London, England	20 December 1906	English	Legal historian	VIAF / ODNB
Francis Andrew March	male	correspondent (no letters online)	25 October 1825 Millbury, Massachusetts, United States of America	9 September 1911	American	Historian / Philologist	VIAF
Sir Clements Robert Markham	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 July 1830 Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, England	30 January 1916	English	Geographer	VIAF / ODNB
Jenny Julia Eleanor Marx	female	correspondent (no letters online)	16 January 1855 London, England	31 March 1898	German / English	Author / Socialist activist	VIAF / ODNB
Leonard Mayall	male	correspondent	March 1865 Mossley, Lancashire, England		English	Cotton-spinner
Anthony Lawson Mayhew	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1842	1916	English	Philologist / Chaplain	VIAF
Alfred James McFarlane	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 June 1870 Lifou, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia	5 May 1957	Scottish	Missionary
I. McLeod	female	correspondent (no letters online)				Teacher
Sir Roderick Sinclair Meiklejohn	male	correspondent (no letters online)	30 May 1876	18 January 1962	English	Secretary to Herbert Henry Asqutih
Paul (Marie-Paul-Hyacinthe) Meyer	male	correspondent	17 January 1840 Paris, France	8 September 1917	French	Chair of Southern European Language and Literature at the Collège de France (1876–1906) / Director of the École nationale des chartes (1882–1916)	VIAF	One of the great authorities of the day on historical French and other Romance languages, Meyer was at the centre of a European network of historical philologists, many of whom published their pioneering work in the various scholarly periodicals he founded. He was particularly well known for his access to the huge collection of Anglo-Norman manuscripts in Sir Thomas Phillips’s library in Cheltenham; as an expert in handwriting, he also played a key role (for the defence) in the Dreyfus trial of 1898. Meyer was one of Murray’s most longstanding, frequent, and valuable correspondents, exchanging letters with him nearly every day during the first twelve years of Murray’s editorship of the dictionary and answering hundreds of queries on the etymology of English words in French and other Romance languages (see Murray’s own account in letter 930619A, written on the occasion of Meyer’s receiving an honorary degree from the University of Oxford in 1893). Meyer was also a close friend and regular correspondent of Lucy Toulmin Smith, with whom he collaborated professionally. See Latowsky (2011).
Annabella Milne	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1842?	1936?	Scottish
John Mitchell	male	non-correspondent	1858–1859	30 August 1894		Lexicographer		Mitchell was one of Murray’s editorial assistants on the OED from 1882 to 1888, and then again from 1889 until his death in a climbing accident.
Dr Moffat
Harriet Moore	female	correspondent (no letters online)	29 April 1806 Derby, Derbyshire, England	30 August 1887	English
Lieutenant-Colonel William Edward Moss	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1875	14 February 1953	English	Book collector	VIAF
Alfred William Mudge	male	correspondent (no letters online)	c. 1833	29 August 1921	British	Painter	VIAF
Friedrich Max Müller	male	correspondent (no letters online)	6 December 1823 Dessau, Anhalt-Dessau, Germany	28 October 1900	German	Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
Lady Ada Agnes (Ruthven) Murray	female	correspondent	12 October 1845 Kendal, Westmorland, England	28 February 1936	English	Housewife		Ada Murray was the second wife of James Murray, with whom she had eleven children. In addition to managing the family home, Ada Murray assisted her husband in his work on the OED and kept his papers, accounts and letters.
Ælfric Charles Ruthven Murray	male	non-correspondent	19 May 1880 Mill Hill, London, England	1949	English	Vicar		Ælfric Murray was the seventh child of James and Ada Murray.
Arthur Hugh Jowett Murray	male	non-correspondent	1886 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England	1981	English	Missionary		Jowett Murray (who always went by his middle name) was the tenth child of James and Ada Murray.
Charles Oliver Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1842 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland	11 December 1923	Scottish	Painter		Charles Murray was the youngest brother of James Murray.
Ethelbert Thomas Ruthven Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 January 1870 Camberwell, Surrey, England	16 December 1927	English			Ethelbert Murray was the second child of James and Ada Murray.
George Gilbert Aimé Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 January 1866 Sydney, Australia	20 May 1957	Australian	Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
Harold James Ruthven Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	24 June 1868 Peckham, Surrey, England	16 May 1955	English	School inspector	VIAF	Harold Murray was the eldest child of James and Ada Murray.
Hilda Mary Emily Ada Ruthven Murray	female	correspondent (no letters online)	17 November 1875 Mill Hill, London, England	23 August 1951	English	Vice-Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge (1924–1936) / Literary scholar / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB	Hilda Murray was the fifth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as one of her father’s editorial assistants on the OED between 1896 and 1899. She went on to become Director of Studies in Medieval and Modern Languages then English at Girton College from 1915 to 1936, and after serving as Vice-Mistress became a Life Fellow in 1942.
Sir James Augustus Henry Murray	male	correspondent	7 February 1837 Denholm, Roxburghshire, Scotland	26 July 1915	Scottish	Philologist / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	James Murray served as the chief editor of the OED from 1879 until his death. In his youth, he worked as a schoolteacher and became headmaster of Hawick Academy in 1857. In 1862 he married Margaret ‘Maggie’ Scott, with whom he had a daughter, Anna Maria Gretchen, in 1864. The child lived for only seven months. Maggie herself suffered from tuberculosis, and for the sake of her health the couple moved south to London, where James took a position as a clerk at the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China. Maggie died in 1865. Two years later, James married Ada Ruthven, with whom he would go on to have eleven children. Around this time, he joined the London Philological Society, and in 1870 the connections he made through the Society enabled him to leave his clerical job and become a master at Mill Hill School. In 1876, it was suggested to Murray that he take on the Society’s long-dormant project to compile a new English dictionary. After several years of negotiations with different publishers, the Society reached an agreement with Oxford University Press in 1879. Under Murray’s editorship, the first part of the dictionary was published in 1884. The last instalment to be edited by him, Turndun–Tzirid, appeared posthumously in 1916. Three of his children—Elsie, Hilda, and Rosfrith—worked at various times as editorial assistants on the dictionary.
Katherine Maud Elisabeth Murray	female	non-correspondent	3 December 1909	6 February 1998	English	Biographer / Headmistress of Bishop Otter College (1948–1970) / University administrator	ODNB	Elisabeth Murray was appointed Assistant Tutor and Registrar at Girton College in 1938, then Domestic Bursar and finally Junior Bursar in 1942–1948, before moving to become Principal of Bishop Otter College in Chichester (a teacher training institution for women) where she remained till retirement in 1970.
Madeline Murray	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1901 Cape Town, Cape Colony	1972	English			Madeline Murray was the daughter of Phoebe and Wilfrid Murray.
Margaret Isabella Sarah (Scott) Murray	female	non-correspondent	1834	29 September 1865	Scottish	Schoolmistress		Margaret ‘Maggie’ Murray taught in schools near Manchester and in Belfast before marrying James Murray in 1862. Thereafter she taught music at Hawick Academy, where he was headmaster. In 1864 they had a daughter, Anna Maria Gretchen, who lived for only seventh months. Maggie Murray herself suffered from an advanced stage of tuberculosis, and in 1864 the couple moved south to London for her health. She died a year later. (See letter 821203A.)
Lady Mildred Octavia (March) Murray	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1876	1 March 1969	English	Biographer		Mildred O. Murray was married to Oswyn Murray and wrote a posthumous biography of him (Murray 1940).
Sir Oswyn Alexander Ruthven Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	17 August 1873 Mill Hill, London, England	10 July 1936	English	Civil servant	ODNB	Oswyn Murray was the fourth child of James and Ada Murray and the husband of Mildred Murray. He had a notably successful career in the Admiralty, ‘probably its ablest permanent secretary … in modern times’, as quoted in his ODNB entry. He was knighted in 1917, the year he was appointed to this post.
Phoebe Henrietta (Woodhead) Murray	female	correspondent (no letters online)			English	Member of the South African Women’s Auxiliary Service		Phoebe Murray was the wife of Wilfrid Murray.
Rosfrith Ada Nina Ruthven Murray	female	non-correspondent	5 February 1884 Mill Hill, London, England	20 May 1973	English	Lexicographer		Rosfrith Murray (known as ‘Nina’ as a girl) was the ninth child of James and Ada Murray. She worked as an editorial assistant on the OED from 1902 to 1929.
Wilfrid George Ruthven Murray	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 October 1871 Mill Hill, London, England	1964	English			Wilfrid Murray was the third child of James and Ada Murray and the husband of Phoebe Murray.
Arthur Sampson Napier	male	correspondent (no letters online)	30 August 1853 Bollin Fee, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England	10 May 1916	English	Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
Alfred Newton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	11 June 1829 Geneva, Switzerland	7 June 1907	English	Zoologist	VIAF / ODNB
Henry Nicol	male	correspondent (no letters online)	c. 1845	30 January 1881	English	Philologist
Jane (Rutherford) Oliver	female	correspondent (no letters online)	20 February 1839 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland	26 December 1914	Scottish	Local historian
Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman	male	correspondent (no letters online)	12 January 1860 Muzaffarpur, North-Western Provinces, India	23 June 1946	English	Historian	VIAF / ODNB
Angela (Blythman) Onions	female	non-correspondent	28 September 1883	26 March 1941	English	Housewife		Angela Onions was married to Charles Talbut Onions, with whom she had ten children, and managed the family home.
Charles Talbut Onions	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 September 1873 Birmingham, England	8 January 1965	English	Philologist / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	Charles Talbut Onions was married to Angela Onions, with whom he had ten children. He worked on the OED as an editorial assistant, first to Murray from 1894, then to Bradley from 1899; he also did piecemeal work for Craigie from 1906. In 1914, he was made an editor, a position he held until the publication of the first Supplement in 1933. He was married to Angela Onions.
Paul Édouard Passy	male	correspondent (no letters online)	13 January 1859 Versailles, Yvelines, France	21 March 1940	French	Linguist	VIAF
Francis William Pember	male	correspondent	16 August 1862	19 January 1954	English	Warden of All Souls College (1914–1932) / Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1926–1929)
William Pengelly	male	correspondent (no letters online)	12 January 1812 East Looe, Cornwall, England	16 March 1894	English	Archaeologist / Geologist	VIAF / ODNB
George Alexander Felix Pernet	male	correspondent	1862 London, England	6 January 1940	English	Dermatologist
William Gordon Perrin	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 February 1874	12 February 1931	English	Admiralty librarian (1908–1931)
Sir Isaac Pitman	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 January 1813 Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England	22 January 1897	English	Inventor of Pitman shorthand / Teacher	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet	male	correspondent (no letters online)	10 December 1845 London, England	18 January 1937	English	Jurist	VIAF / ODNB
James Eyre Poppleton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1861 Bradford, Yorkshire, England	11 May 1925	English	Antiquarian / Lawyer
Constance Mary (Fearon) Pott	female	correspondent	1833	25 May 1915	English	Literary scholar	VIAF
Cuthbert Young Potts	male	correspondent	1824/1825	11 May 1909	English	Clergyman
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	27 January 1856 Reading, Berkshire, England	20 November 1943	English	Zoologist	VIAF / ODNB
Sir David Prain	male	correspondent	11 July 1857 Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, Scotland	16 March 1944	Scottish	Botanist	VIAF / ODNB
Bartholomew Price	male	correspondent	14 May 1818 Coln St Dennis, Gloucestershire, England	29 December 1898	English	Mathematician / Master of Pembroke College, Oxford (1892–1898) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1868–1884)	VIAF / ODNB	As Secretary, Price ‘negotiated the terms of the Press’s agreements with Murray and the Philological Society regarding OED’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Richard Chandler Alexander Prior	male	correspondent	1809 Corsham, Wiltshire, England	5 December 1902	English	Botanist / Physician	VIAF	‘Author of On the Popular Names of British Plants (1863). Also published a collection of translations of Danish ballads (1860) and a book on croquet (1872). Read for OED (credited with 11,700 quotations in 1888), and gave advice on some plant names and botanical terms’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Richard Bissell Prosser	male	correspondent (no letters online)	25 August 1838 Birmingham, England	18 March 1918	English	Patent examiner / Industrial historian	VIAF
Robert Purdon	male	correspondent (no letters online)			Scottish	Town Clerk of Hawick
Clara Dorothea Rackham	female	correspondent (no letters online)	3 December 1875 London, England	11 March 1966	English	Political reformer / Suffragist	ODNB
Alfred Arthur Reade	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1851 Snelson, Cheshire, England		English	Journalist	VIAF
Vincent Burrough Redstone	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1853 Hampshire, England	26 April 1941	English	Local historian
Sir John Rhŷs	male	correspondent (no letters online)	21 June 1840 Ponterwyd, Ceredigion, Wales	17 December 1915	Welsh	Celtic scholar / President of Jesus College, Oxford (1895–1915)	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Pierre Henri Rieu	male	correspondent (no letters online)	8 June 1820 Geneva, Switzerland	19 March 1902	Swiss	Asian scholar	VIAF / ODNB
Briton Rivière	male	correspondent (no letters online)	14 August 1840 London, England	20 April 1920	English	Painter	VIAF / ODNB
John Robson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1829 Eckford, Roxburghshire, Scotland	1904	Scottish
Annie Mary Anne Henley Rogers	female	correspondent (no letters online)	15 February 1856 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England	28 October 1937	English	Campaigner for women’s higher education / Classicist	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe	male	correspondent (no letters online)	7 January 1833 London, England	18 December 1915	English		VIAF / ODNB
Joseph Benjamin Rundell	male	correspondent (no letters online)	c. 1834	1 April 1889	English	Civil servant / Editor / Spelling reformer	VIAF
George Augustus Sala	male	correspondent	24 November 1828 London, England	8 December 1895	English	Journalist / Novelist	VIAF / ODNB
Philip Lutley Sclater	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 November 1829 Wootton St Lawrence, Hampshire, England	27 June 1913	English	Zoologist	VIAF / ODNB
Charles Scott	male	correspondent (no letters online)				Lawyer
Frederic Scrutton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1859 London, England	27 April 1937	English	Shipowner
SirThomas Edward Scrutton	male	correspondent (no letters online)	28 August 1856 London, England	18 August 1934	English	Judge / Jurist	VIAF / ODNB
Horace Alfred Damer Seymour	male	correspondent (no letters online)	9 April 1843 Brighton, Sussex, England	25 June 1902	English	Civil servant
Evelyn Jane Sharp	female	correspondent (no letters online)	4 August 1869 London, England	17 June 1955	English	Children’s author / Suffragist	VIAF / ODNB
Eduard Sievers	male	correspondent (no letters online)	25 November 1850 Lippoldsberg, Hesse, Germany	30 March 1932	German	Philologist	VIAF
Kenneth Sisam	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 September 1887 Ōpōtiki, North Island, New Zealand	26 August 1971	New Zealander	Philologist / Assistant Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1925–1942) / Secretary to the Delegates of Oxford University Press (1942–1948)	VIAF / ODNB
Walter William Skeat	male	correspondent	21 November 1835 London, England	30 October 1912	English	Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Cambridge (1878-–1912)	VIAF / ODNB	‘Published many important works in English philology, perhaps most notably the Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (1882). Joined the Philological Society in 1863, and took an early interest in OED; sub-edited in R for Furnivall. Founded the English Dialect Society in 1873, through which he encountered Murray and became a close friend and adviser ... by reading books, seeking out quotations, giving etymological advice on particular words, and reading proofs’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Thomas Collins Snow	male	correspondent (no letters online)	2 February 1852 York, Yorkshire, England	27 October 1926	English	Classicist	VIAF
William Johnson Sollas	male	correspondent (no letters online)	30 May 1849 Birmingham, England	20 October 1936	English	Anthropologist / Geologist	VIAF / ODNB
Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby	female	correspondent	18 July 1856 London, England	19 May 1927	English	Headmistress of Oxford High School (1887–1897)	VIAF / ODNB
Anthony Butler Stark	male	correspondent (no letters online)	13 July 1832 Robertson County, Tennessee, United States of America	1884	American	President of Logan Female College, Kentucky (1874–1883)
Sir Leslie Stephen	male	correspondent (no letters online)	28 November 1832 London, England	22 February 1904	English	Author / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	Stephen was the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900) until his resignation in 1891.
Robert Louis Stevenson	male	correspondent	13 November 1850 Edinburgh, Scotland	3 December 1894	Scottish	Novelist / Poet	VIAF / ODNB
Margaret (Haig) Stuart	female	correspondent (no letters online)			Scottish
Henry Sweet	male	correspondent	15 September 1845 London, England	30 April 1912	English	Philologist / Phonetician	VIAF / ODNB
Algernon Charles Swinburne	male	correspondent	5 April 1837 London, England	10 April 1909	English	Literary scholar / Poet	VIAF / ODNB
George Frederick Holley Sykes	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1829	3 February 1910		Lexicographer / Schoolmaster	VIAF	Sykes worked on the OED as an editorial assistant, first to Murray from 1885, then to Bradley from 1887 to 1903.
William Sykes	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1851	1906		Physician
James Joseph Sylvester	male	correspondent (no letters online)	3 September 1814 London, England	15 March 1897	English	Mathematician	VIAF / ODNB
Henriette Taylor	female	correspondent (no letters online)				Librarian
T. S. L.					English
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	6 August 1809 Somersby, Lincolnshire, England	6 October 1892	English	Poet / Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom (1850–1892)	VIAF / ODNB
Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	11 August 1852 Twickenham, Middlesex, England	2 December 1928	English	Biographer / Governor-general of Australia (1903–1904)	VIAF / ODNB
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer	male	correspondent (no letters online)	28 July 1843 London, England	23 December 1928	English	Botanist / Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1885–1905)	VIAF / ODNB
Edith Thompson	female	correspondent	16 May 1848 Greenwich, London, England	26 August 1929	English	Historian / Lexicographer	VIAF / ODNB	‘Wrote a popular History of England (1873) for schools. Gave advice to OED on historical terms, and sought out quotations for particular words. She and her sister Elizabeth Perronet Thompson (1857–1930) (who also wrote A Dragoon’s Wife, subtitled ‘a romance of the 17th century’) were readers for OED (credited with 15,000 quotations in 1888), and gave help throughout its period of publication, including sub-editing in C, and reading proofs from D onwards’ (Gilliver 2000–). See ‘Women and the Dictionary, Part I: Assistants and Volunteers’.
Sir Edward Maunde Thompson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 May 1840 Clarendon, Jamaica	14 September 1929	English	Palaeographer / Librarian	VIAF / ODNB
Joseph Thompson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1833	1909	English	Alderman / Businessman
Thomas Perronet Edward Thompson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	4 May 1813 York, Yorkshire, England	25 August 1904	English	Judge / Lawyer
Mary S. Thorpe	female	correspondent (no letters online)
Hon. Beatrix Lucia Catherine Tollemache	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1840 Cheshire, England	23 December 1926	English	Author / Translator from Russian	VIAF
Lucy Toulmin Smith	female	correspondent	21 November 1838 Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America	18 December 1911	American / English	Librarian / Literary scholar	VIAF / ODNB	Accomplished medievalist with expertise in Middle English and Old French. Editor of the Clarendon Press York Mystery Plays, the standard text until the 1980s, and long-standing contributor to OED as well as protegée and friend of Murray. See ‘Women and the Dictionary, Part I: Assistants and Volunteers’.
Paget Jackson Toynbee	male	correspondent (no letters online)	20 January 1855 Wimbledon, Surrey, England	13 May 1932	English	Dante scholar	VIAF / ODNB
Richard Chenevix Trench	male	correspondent (no letters online)	9 September 1807 Dublin, Ireland	28 March 1886	Irish	Archbishop of Dublin (1864–1884)	VIAF / ODNB
Frances Eleanor Trollope	female	correspondent (no letters online)	August 1835 Delaware Bay, United States of America	14 August 1913	English	Novelist	VIAF
Thomas Adolphus Trollope		correspondent (no letters online)	29 April 1810 London, England	11 November 1892	English	Historian / Novelist	VIAF / ODNB
S. Alice Tucker	female	correspondent (no letters online)				Teacher
Sir Edward Burnett Tylor	male	correspondent	2 October 1832 Camberwell, Surrey, England	2 January 1917	English	Anthropologist	VIAF / ODNB	Tylor would be acknowledged in the first volume of the OED for his assistance with words from American and African languages (Murray 1888: xii). However, he would fall out with Murray in 1892, after a public argument over the use of the word couvade to describe certain childbirth customs supposedly practised in provincial France (see Bailey 2000: 220–224).
Charles Anthony Vince	male	correspondent (no letters online)	7 December 1855 Handsworth, Staffordshire, England	27 January 1929	English	Headmaster of Mill Hill School (1886–1891)
Sydney Howard Vines	male	correspondent	31 December 1849 London, England	4 April 1934	English	Botanist	VIAF / ODNB
William Walbran	male	correspondent (no letters online)				Clergyman
William Walsh	male	correspondent (no letters online)	30 January 1841 Dublin, Ireland	9 April 1921	Irish	Archbishop of Dublin (1885–1921)	VIAF
Prudence Elizabeth Frances Walter	female	correspondent (no letters online)	1859 Dublin, Ireland	1941
Edith Elizabeth Wardale	female	correspondent (no letters online)	6 March 1863 Orcheston St Mary, Wiltshire, England	27 February 1943	English	Literary scholar / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB
Sir Thomas Herbert Warren	male	correspondent (no letters online)	21 October 1853 Bristol, England	9 June 1930	English	Classicist / President of Magdalen College (1885–1928)	VIAF / ODNB
David McBurnie Watson	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1836/1837 Hawick, Roxburghshire, Scotland	18 September 1902	English	Local historian
William Henry Wesley	male	correspondent (no letters online)	23 August 1841 Stapenhill, Staffordshire, England	17 October 1922	English	Astronomer
Richard Francis Weymouth	male	correspondent (no letters online)	26 October 1822 Plymouth, Devon, England	27 December 1902	English	Philologist / Theologian / Headmaster of Mill Hill School (1869–1886)	VIAF / ODNB
Ralph Olmsted Williams	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1837/1838	17 July 1908	American	Lexicographer
Eliza Woodhouse	female	correspondent	1850	2 January 1924		Headmistress of Sheffield High School (1878–1898) / Headmistress of Clapham High School (1898–1912)		At the age of 28, Woodhouse became the second Headmistress of Sheffield High School (set up in 1878); she later took up another headship at Clapham High School (founded in 1887).
Dame Elizabeth Wordsworth	female	correspondent	22 June 1840 Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex, England	30 November 1932	English	Author / Founding Principal of Lady Margaret Hall (1879–1909)	VIAF / ODNB
Walter Worrall	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1862	1943	English	Lexicographer		Worrall was the longest serving editorial assistant on the OED (from 1885 to 1933, or in his own words, ‘48 years of unremitting toil’), initially as a member of Murray’s staff, subsequently under first Bradley then Onions (see Brewer 2007: 35). He suffered from chronic neuralgic headaches throughout his working life, which he ascribed to his occupation. He ‘took special responsibility for parts of W after the death of Bradley. Also published editions of Bacon’s Essayes or Counsels and Milton’s sonnets, and some articles of textual criticism’ (Gilliver 2000–).
Jane F. Worthington	female	correspondent (no letters online)
Elizabeth Mary (Lea) Wright	female	correspondent	10 October 1863 London, England	4 October 1958	English	Dialectologist / Folklorist / Philologist	VIAF	Lea, later Wright, entered Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1887, where she attended Joseph Wright’s lectures. She later managed all the clerical labour on his major work, The English Dialect Dictionary, having married him in 1896. See further Wright (1932).
Joseph Wright	male	correspondent	31 October 1855 Thackley, Yorkshire, England	27 February 1930	English	Dialectologist / Philologist	VIAF / ODNB	Wright was the editor of The English Dialect Dictionary, the clerical work for which was undertaken by Elizabeth Wright (née Lea), whom he married in 1896. See further Wright (1932).
William Aldis Wright	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1 August 1831 Beccles, Suffolk, England	19 May 1914	English	Literary scholar / Theologian	VIAF / ODNB
John Yeats	male	correspondent (no letters online)	1822	14 June 1902		Historian of commerce	VIAF / ODNB
Charlotte Mary Yonge	female	correspondent	11 August 1823	24 March 1901		Novelist	VIAF / ODNB	Highly regarded novelist, in later editions of the OED one of the most quoted female writers. ‘Sub-edited part of N, in collaboration with her cousin Henry Hucks Gibbs’ (Gilliver 2000–).