Neilson, William (1774-1821), grammarian and lexicographer; born in Rademon, Co. Down, where his father, a Presbyterian minister, ran a school. He was educated locally, where he was taught Irish by Patrick Lynch, and at Glasgow University. He was licensed in 1796 and became a minister in Dundalk. In 1798 he was seized by the authorities as he was about to preach at his father's church, but released when his sermon was shown to be free of United Irishmen leanings. His Introduction to the Irish Language (1808), a grammar, also comprised a collection of words, phrases, and short dialogues, together with a selection from Irish manuscripts, and is particularly valued for its record of the Irish dialect of Co. Down. At the Belfast Academical Institution he taught the future Gaelic patron Roibeárd Mac Ádaimh.
William Allen Neilson
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Neilson, William Allan (nēl'sən), 1869-1946, American educator, b. Scotland, M.A. Univ. of Edinburgh, 1891, Ph.D. Harvard, 1898. He taught English in Scotland and Canada and at Bryn Mawr and Columbia and served (1906-17) as professor of English at Harvard. From 1917 until his retirement in 1939 he was president of Smith. He was author of a number of critical works, editor of the Cambridge and Tudor editions of Shakespeare (1906, 1911), and editor in chief of the second edition (1934) of Webster's New International Dictionary.
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British-born American scholar and lexicographer noted for his editions of Shakespeare (1906 and 1942) and as the editor in chief of Webster's Second International Dictionary (1934).
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William Allan Neilson (1869 – 1946) was a Scottish-American educator, writer and lexicographer. He was president of Smith College between 1917 and 1939.
He was born in Doune, Scotland. He taught at Bryn Mawr College from 1898 to 1900, Harvard from 1900 to 1904, Columbia from 1904 to 1906, and Harvard again from 1906 to 1917. He wrote on poetry and William Shakespeare and was the editor of Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (1934).
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