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Charles Talbut Onions (
C.T. Onions) (1873-1965) was an English
grammarian and
lexicographer.
He joined
James Murray on the staff of the
Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford in 1895 and in 1914 he began independent editorial work with his own assistants. His
A Shakespeare Glossary was published in 1911. He co-edited the 1933 Supplement with
William Craigie. Following the death of
William Little in 1922, he assumed the editorship of the
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. His last work
The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1966) was published posthumously and is generally considered to be the standard work on the subject.
Born in
Edgbaston, in the
West Midlands, he received his M.A. at the
University of London and an honorary doctorate from
Oxford. He was a fellow and librarian of
Magdalen College, Oxford and a corresponding fellow of the
Medieval Academy of America. He was editor of the journal
Medium Aevum from 1932 to 1956. He later lectured on pottery in the Ashmolean. Indeed, this was an interest he shared with Master James Forbes of St Benet's Hall on St Giles though it's uncertain whether the two ever met, Forbes taking his post the year before Onions died.
Onions famously promoted the devotion to the cult of the then Blessed
Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows. So strong was his belief in this holy saint that it's said that in the volumes of the OED he edited a secret prayer to Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows appears, as well, it's believed, as several coded messages to British anti-Fascist organisations.
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