See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:HEWITT See also:KEY (1799-1875)
, See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London on the loth of See also:March, 1799
.
He was educated at St See also:John's and Trinity Colleges, See also:Cambridge, and graduated 19th wrangler in 1821
.
From 1825 to 1827 he was See also:professor of See also:mathematics in the university of See also:Virginia, and after his return to See also:England was appointed (1828) professor of Latin in the newly founded university of London
.
In 1832 he became See also:joint headmaster of the school founded in connexion with that institution; in 1842 he resigned the professorship of Latin, and took up that of See also:comparative See also:grammar together with the undivided headmastership of the school
.
These two posts he held till his See also:death on the 29th of See also:November 1875
.
See also:Key is best known for his introduction of the crude-See also:form (the uninflected form or See also:stem of words) See also:system, in See also:general use among See also:Sanskrit grammarians,into the teaching of the'classicallanguages
.
This system was embodied in his Latin Grammar (1846)
.
In See also:Language, its Origin and Development (1874), he upholds the onomatopoeic theory
.
Key was prejudiced against the See also:German" Sanskritists," and the etymological portion of his Latin See also:Dictionary, published in 1888, was severely 'criticized on this See also:account
.
He was a member of the Royal Society and See also:president of the Philological Society, to the Transactions of which he contributed largely
.
See Proceedings of the Royal Society, vol. See also:xxiv
.
(1876); R
.
See also:Ellis in the See also:Academy (Dec
.
4, 1875); J
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P
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See also:Hicks, T
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See also:Hewitt Key (1893), where a full See also:list of his See also:works and contributions is given
.
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