Skeat

Skeat, WALTER WILLIAM, was bam in 1835, and graduated at Cambridge, becoming in 1864 lecturer in mathematics at his college (Christ's). He had already turned his attention to the study of English philology, and edited between 1865 and 1872 many specimens of our early literature for the English Text Society. He was also employed to continue Kemble's Anglo-Saxon Gospels for the Cambridge Press, and to edit parts of Chaucer for the Oxford Press. In 1873 he founded the English Dialect Society, and in 1878 was appointed Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. His Etylmological Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1881, and his edition of Chaucer, are most valuable works.