Francis George Fowler

Francis George Fowler , mostly quoted as FG Fowler, (born September 3, 1870 in Tunbridge Wells , † 1918 ) was a British lexicographer, philologist and English scholar.

Fowler attended St. Paul's School and studied from 1888 at Peterhouse College in Cambridge, graduating first class in the Classical Tripos in 1892 (and the BA in the same year). In 1897 he received his MA degree. He lived in Guernsey , where he grew fruit and began working with his older brother Henry Watson Fowler in 1903 . First they published a translation of Lukian von Samosata , followed by their style primer The King's English , which appeared in 1906. They were working on an expanded edition (which later became his brother's famous Dictionary of Modern English Usage, published in 1926 and dedicated to FG Fowler) and the Pocket Oxford Dictionary when World War I broke out. Both brothers volunteered and Francis George Fowler contracted tuberculosis in the field, from which he died in 1918.

Fonts

• with HW Fowler: The King's English. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1906, abridged edition 1908.
• with HW Fowler: Concise Oxford Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1911, 2nd edition 1929.
• with HW Fowler: Pocket Oxford Dictionary. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1924.

literature

• Fowler, Francis George . In: John Archibald Venn (Ed.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 2: From 1752 to 1900 , Volume 2 : Chalmers – Fytche . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1944, pp. 552 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Francis George Fowler in the WorldCat bibliographic database