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William Barnes

(Barnes, William, 1801-1886)


William Barnes, by George Stuckey (died 1872), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1947. See source website for additional information.

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William Barnes (22 February 1801 – 7 October 1886) was an English polymath, writer, poet, philologist, priest, mathematician, engraving artist and inventor. He wrote over 800 poems, some in Dorset dialect, and much other work, including a comprehensive English grammar quoting from more than 70 different languages. A linguistic purist, Barnes strongly advocated against borrowing foreign words into English, and instead supported the use and proliferation of "strong old Anglo-Saxon speech". (From Wikipedia)

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