Robert Burchfield
New Zealand lexicographer
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- Bachelors English Victoria University of Wellington
- Masters English Victoria University of Wellington
- PhD English Victoria University of Wellington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert William Burchfield CNZM, CBE was a lexicographer, scholar, and writer, who edited the Oxford English Dictionary for thirty years to 1986, and was chief editor from 1971. Education and career Born in Whanganui, New Zealand, he studied at Wanganui Technical College and Victoria University in Wellington. After war service in the Royal Regiment of New Zealand Artillery, he graduated MA from Wellington in 1948 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford University, in England, where he was tutored by C. S. Lewis. He became a Fellow of Magdalen and lecturer in English straight after graduating , subsequently moving colleges to Christ Church and St Peter's . Through C. T. Onions, the Magdalen librarian, Burchfield assisted in editing one of Onions's projects, the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. His preparation of an edition of the Ormulum was supervised by J. R. R. Tolkien.
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