E. E. Speight
English lexicographer and professor (1871–1949) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ernest Edwin Speight (6 December 1871 – 17 September 1949), usually known as E E Speight, was a Yorkshireman who travelled in Japan and India and was a professor of English for twenty years at the Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan and also at the Fourth Higher School, Kanazawa,[4] then for a further twenty years at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. In India he made a study of the Nilgiri hill tribes and was working on a Toda grammar at his death[1][5]
Ernest Edwin Speight | |
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Born | (1871-12-06)6 December 1871 Bradford, Yorkshire, England |
Died | 17 September 1949(1949-09-17) (aged 77) Ootacamund, India |
Nationality | English |
Other names | E E Speight |
Occupation(s) | Professor of English, author |
Known for | Lexicography, educationalist, philosopher, poet, anthropologist,[1] Publisher[2][3] |
In Speight's youth he was a friend of W. B. Yeats, A. E. Housman and George Bernard Shaw, in his latter years of Tagore, Aurobindo, Mohandas K Gandhi, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark for whom he reviewed some of his writings.[1][5]
In addition to teaching, Speight wrote a substantial number of English textbooks, some of which remain in use in the 21st-century English syllabus in India.[6] Speight also wrote fiction, poetry, music, and edited anthologies.
With his business partner R. H. Walpole, Speight issued The Saracen's Head Library (Mary Kingsley Travel Books) book series published by the E. E. Speight & R. H. Walpole publishing house based in Teignmouth, in Devon.[2][3][7]