According to Wikipedia, Patrick Hanks is an English lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. He has edited dictionaries of general language, as well as dictionaries of personal names. Background Hanks was educated at Ardingly College, University College, Oxford , and Masaryk University . After graduation from Oxford, he started his lexicographic career as editor of the Hamlyn Encyclopedic World Dictionary . In 1970, he was appointed editor of Collins English Dictionary . From 1980 to 1983, he was director of the Names Research Unit of the University of Essex, England, where he began a PhD under the supervision of Yorick Wilks.
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Published Works
The story of our names (1950) (26)
New dictionary of American family names (1972) (16)
"The Story of Our Names", Elsdon C. Smith, New York 1950; "Dictionary of American Family Names", Elsdon C. Smith, New York 1956 : [recenzja] / Zygmunt Klimek. (1961) (1)
