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THOMAS HEWITT KEY (1799-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 767 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 .

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Ellis in the See also:Academy (Dec . 4, 1875); J . P . See also:Hicks, T . See also:Hewitt Key (1893), where a full See also:list of his See also:works and contributions is given .

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