Entries for the tag ‘Wright, Joseph (1855-1930)’
Philologist, author of the English Dialect Dictionary, rose from humble origins in Idle but said "I have been an idle man all my life, and shall remain an idle man till I die". 
- 19 January 1884: Harry England explains in the Yorkshire Weekly Press why the people of the town are known as Leeds Loiners
- 11 January 1906: Joseph Wright, Oxford professor of comparative philology and ex-donkey-boy for a Shipley quarry, discusses self-interest at the opening of Windhill Library
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