Entries for the tag ‘Wright, Joseph (1855-1930)’
Quarry worker, academic 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". 
- 5 December 1859: Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, Napoleon’s nephew and the cousin of the then French emperor, has work for the Barnsley dialectologist Charles Rogers
- 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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