E. E. Speight, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

E. E. Speight

lexicographer, educationalist, philosopher, poet, anthropologist, publisher, author; Speight was a Yorkshireman who was professor of English in Japan and latterly India.

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1871

Place of Birth: Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1949

Profession: academic, anthropologist, philosopher, linguist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About E. E. Speight

  • Ernest Edwin Speight (6 December 1871 – 17 September 1949), usually known as E E Speight, was a Yorkshireman who travelled in Japan and India and was a professor of English for twenty years at the Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan and also at the Fourth Higher School, Kanazawa, then for a further twenty years at the Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.
  • In India he made a study of the Nilgiri hill tribes and was working on a Toda grammar at his deathIn Speight's youth he was a friend of W.
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  • Yeats, A.
  • E.
  • Housman and George Bernard Shaw, in his latter years of Tagore, Aurobindo, Mohandas K Gandhi, and Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark for whom he reviewed some of his writings.In addition to teaching, Speight wrote a substantial number of English textbooks, some of which remain in use in the 21st-century English syllabus in India.
  • Speight also wrote fiction, poetry, music, and edited anthologies. With his business partner R.
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  • Walpole, Speight formed The Saracen's Head Library, a publishing house based in Teignmouth, in Devon.

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