Introduction
Glossary of Terms
List of Source Documents
A-Z of family names of Britain and Ireland
Professor Patrick Hanks holds research professorships at the
Bristol Centre for Linguistics in the University of the West of
England, and at the Research Institute of Information and Language
Processing in the University of Wolverhampton. He is an expert
lexicographer, corpus linguist, and onomastician. Professor Richard
Coates is a Professor in Linguistics at the University of the West
of England. He is particularly interested in the area where
linguistics,
history, and geography meet and specializes in onomastics,
historical change in northern and western European languages, and
dialectology. He is Hon. Director of the Survey of English
Place-Names and
Vice-President of the International Council of Onomastic
Sciences.
Professor Peter McClure is the Honorary Professor of Name-Studies
at the Institute for Name-Studies at the University of Nottingham
and is an Honorary Research Fellow and former Senior Lecturer in
English Language and Literature at the University of Hull. He has
published widely on the origins and historical implications of
English given names and surnames, and on the methodology of
anthroponymic research and anthroponymic dictionaries. He is
President of the Society for Name Studies in Britain
and Ireland (2014-17), a Vice-President of the English Place-Name
Society, and an onomastic consultant to the Oxford English
Dictionary.
This book will stand as a definitive work of reference for many
years to come.
*John Titford, Family and Community History*
The pedigree of the work is excellent and in keeping with the
scholarly reputation of works from Oxford University Press. All
three editors are highly regarded experts in the study of names and
lexicology. The work is the result of extensive research into
family names covering British and Irish family names.
*Diana Dixon, Reference Reviews*
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