Jennett Humphreys

Jennett Humphreys (17 April 1829[1] – 6 February 1917) was a British author, poet, and contributor to major reference works.

Humphreys was from Cricklewood, a district in North London, to a Scottish father, Griffith Humphreys, and English mother, Sarah Leggett Humphreys.[2] As a reader she supplied numerous quotations and other information for entries in the Oxford English Dictionary,[3] much of which was a by-product of research for an unpublished book on the early history of cooking, and wrote an article on the OED for Fraser's Magazine.[4] She was the author of many articles in the Dictionary of National Biography.

References

1. England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980
2. 1851 England Census
3. OED cite: "credited with 18,700 quotations in 1888"
4. Gilliver, Peter. "Biographical information : Oxford English Dictionary". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 20 December 2010.

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