English philologist, born in London on the 15th of September 1845. Educated at King’s College, London, Balliol College, Oxford, and Heidelberg University, he was a recognized authority on the subject of phonetics, and a readership in phonetics was specially created for him in 1901 by the university of Oxford. His published works include an Anglo-Saxon Reader; a Student’s Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon; an English Grammar; The History of Language, and many editions of Old and Middle English Texts. He died at Oxford on the 30th of April 1912. (See authored article: Grimm.)
