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Also Known As	Henry Watson Fowler
Born	March 10, 1858 • Tonbridge • England
Died	December 26, 1933 (aged 75) • England

John Crawfurd

British scholar and diplomat

Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Henry George Liddell

British lexicographer

Eric Partridge

British lexicographer

Sir William Alexander Craigie

British lexicographer

Francis Horace Vizetelly

American-British writer

Samuel Johnson

English author

Noah Webster

American lexicographer

Frédéric Mistral

French poet

Ambrose Bierce

American author

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Adamántios Koraïs

Greek scholar

Alexandre de Rhodes

French missionary

John Ciardi

American poet and critic

Adoniram Judson

American missionary

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

David Kimhi

European scholar

Charles du Fresne, seigneur du Cange

French scholar

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Serbian language scholar

Joseph Emerson Worcester

American lexicographer

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar

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