The Merry Shire
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Type of record: Archive
Title: The Merry Shire
Classmark: MS 2213
Date(s): c. 1923
Size and medium: 1 item
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/634046
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Manuscript of Albert Hugh Smith's 'The Merry Shire' with pencil annotation detailing the meaning of dialect words.
Biography or history
Albert Hugh Smith OBE (24 February 1903 - 11 May 1967) was a scholar of Old English and Scandinavian languages. Born in West Yorkshire he studied at the University of Leeds where he obtained a BA in English in 1924 and a PhD on the place-names of the North Riding in 1926. He had an active academic career encompassing posts in Birmingham (1926-1928), Uppsala University Sweden (1928-1930), and University College London (1930-1963), and in 1951 he took over the Survey of English Place‑Names. Smith published widely and was joint editor of Methuen’s series of Old English Library and of the Early English Texts Society's Facsimile of The Parker Chronicle and Laws 1941.
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