John Orr
British linguist
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- PhD Linguistics University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Orr, FBA was an English-born Scottish-Australian scholar of French language and philology, and a translator of French literature. Early life and education Orr was born in 1885 in Cumberland to Scottish parents. When he was still a boy, the family migrated to Tasmania, where he attended Launceston High School and the University of Tasmania . He won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford, beginning in 1905. He initially studied classics, switching to law for his finals, which he sat in 1909. A period of ill health led him to France and Switzerland for recuperation; there, he met his future wife, Augusta Berthe Brisac, and also developed an interest in French language and literature. In 1911, he was awarded his licence ès lettres by the University of Paris. He completed the BLitt at the University of Oxford in 1913.
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