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| Grasmere Cemetery, Grasmere | ||
| Grasmere Cemetery | ||
| Town Cemetery | ||
| Street:- | Pye Lane | |
| locality:- | Grasmere | |
| civil parish:- | Lakes (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | cemetery | |
| coordinates:- | NY33840832 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3308 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY30 | |
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| person:- | historian; philosopher : Spooner, William Archibald, Dr |
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| place:- | burial place | |
| item:- | New College, Oxford; History of Tacitus; Tacitus, History of; William of Wykeham; spoonerism |
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| William Spooner, b.1844 d.1930, was a historian and philosopher. He had a scholarship
to New College, Oxford, where he became Warden of the college in 1903. He wrote 'The
History of Tacitus', 'William of Wykeham', etc. He is notorious for his lapses in
speech known as spoonerisms, eg 'You have hissed my mystery lectures ... '. |
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