THE SALAMANCA CORPUS:

DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF ENGLISH DIALECT TEXTS

WORCESTERSHIRE

DING 2021: "Historian born in Faversham, Knt,  where his father, Rev. Samson Kingsford, was headmaster of the Grammar School. He studied at Worcester College, Ox. and graduated B.A. in 1855 and M.A. in 1859. For the next 8 years he was a curate at different parishes (Chillingworth, Som.; Hentland, Her.; Chalfont, St. Peter, Bck., Chalford, Glo., Minting, Lin., Dulverton, Som. and Chartham, Knt.).  He settled as Vicar  of Stoulton, Wor., in 1867. He was to remain there until his retirement in 1913.  He was the Honorary Secretary of the Worcester Diocesan Architectural and Archaeological Society between 1892 and 1902. He published papers on Worcestershire, and Stoulton. Under the pseudonym "Outis" he wrote a series of short stories in the Wo. dialect which appeared periodically in a local newspaper in 1895 and 1896. The following year he gathered them, with minor corrections, in book form. He also wrote some Letters to the Editor of the Berrow's Worcester Journal in which he explained some of the conventions he had followed in his short stories in his attempt to represent the Wor. dialect. He was a frequent contributor to The English Dialect Dictionary and as such is recognized by Joseph Wright in the Preface. (I:viii)  ."

WORKS

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue I." Berrow's Worcester Journal 5 Jan.: 4. SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue II". Berrow's Worcester Journal 12 Jan.: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue III." Berrow's Worcester Journal 19 Jan.: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue IV." Berrow's Worcester Journal 26 Jan.: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue V." Berrow's Worcester Journal 2 Feb.: 4 SC

1895. "Letters to the Editor: Vigornian Monologues." Berrow's Worcester Journal 9 Feb: 5 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue VI." Berrow's Worcester Journal 9 March.: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue VII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 16 March: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue VIII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 30 March: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue IX." Berrow's Worcester Journal 6 April: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue X." Berrow's Worcester Journal 20 April: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue XI." Berrow's Worcester Journal 4 May: 4 SC

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue XII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 11 May: 4

1895. "A Vigornian Monologue XIII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 25 May: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XIV." Berrow's Worcester Journal 28 March: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XV." Berrow's Worcester Journal 11 April: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XVI." Berrow's Worcester Journal 25 April: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XVII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 9 May: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XVIII." Berrow's Worcester Journal 23 May: 5 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XIX." Berrow's Worcester Journal 6 June: 4 SC

1896. ""Runnel." Letter to the Editor." Berrow's Worcester Journal 13 June: 5 SC

1896. "Letters to the Editor: About Vigornian Monologue XIX." Berrow's Worcester Journal: 13 June:5 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue XX." Berrow's Worcester Journal 20 June: 4 SC

1896. "Letter to the Editor on Vigornian Monologues." Berrow's Worcester Journal 20 June: 5 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologues." Berrow's Worcester Journal 11 July: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue". Berrow's Worcester Journal 8 Aug.: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue". Berrow's Worcester Journal 21st Nov.: 4 SC

1896. "Vigornian Monologue". Berrow's Worcester Journal 28th Nov.: 4 SC

1897. Vigornian Monologues. A Series of Papers in illustration of the Dialect of Worcestershire, Originally published in Berrow's Worcester Journal, in the years 1895-96 . Worcester: Berrow's Worcester Journal Co. Lim. Printers. SC, EDD.

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Rev. Hamilton Kingsford

(a.k.a Outis)

(1831-1914)