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Craigie, Sir William Alexander

Craigie, Sir William Alexander

▪ British lexicographer
born Aug. 13, 1867, Dundee, Angus, Scot.
died Sept. 2, 1957, Watlington, Oxfordshire, Eng.

      Scottish lexicographer and language and literature scholar who was joint editor (1901–33) of The Oxford English Dictionary and chief editor (1923–36) of the four-volume Historical Dictionary of American English.

      Craigie attended St. Andrews University, studied Scandinavian languages in Copenhagen, and taught at St. Andrews before joining the Oxford dictionary staff in 1897; from 1905 on he taught at the University of Oxford. His writings include several works on Scandinavian, English, and Scottish philology and literature.

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