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RICHARD MORRIS (1833–1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RICHARD
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MORRIS (1833–1894)  ,
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English philologist, was
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born in
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London on the 8th of
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September 1833 . In 1871 he was ordained in the
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Church of
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England, and from 1875–1888 was
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head
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master of the Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, near London . His first published
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work was The
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Etymology of
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Local Names (1857) . Between 1862 and 188o he prepared twelve volumes for the
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Early English
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Text Society, edited
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Chaucer (1866) and
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Spenser (1869) from the
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original
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manuscripts, and published Specimens of Early English (1867) . His educational
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works,
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Historical Outlines of English
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Accidence (1872), Elementary Lessons in Historical English
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Grammar (1874) and English Grammar (1874), had a large
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sale and exercised a real
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influence . The
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rest of his
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life he "devoted to the study of
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Pali, on which he became a recognized authority . He died at Harold
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Wood,
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Essex, on the 12th of May 1894 .

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