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DING 2021: "Antiquarian and dialectologist, born at St. Marylebone, London, the fifth son of diplomatist Sir Woodbine Parish.  He attended Charterhouse School, Godalming, Sur.. He graduated from Trinity College, Oxford, in 1858. He was curate of Firle, Sus., and, since 1865, vicar of Selmeston with Alciston, Sus. Between 1877 and 1900 he was also Chancellor of Chichester Cathedral. He was a frequent contibutor to Notes and Queries on matters relating to the dialects of Sussex, Surrey and Kent. According to Roper 2018 he also penned a letter in the Sussex dialect under the pseudonym John Hogpound, q.v. Together with William Francis Shaw he also compiled a dictionary of the dialect of Kent."

WORKS

1873. "John Hogpound's Account of the Shah". Chichester Express and West Sussex Journal 8th July: 3. [Written under the pseudonym John Hogpound] SC.

1875. A Dictionary of the Sussex Dialect and Collection of Provincialisms in Use in the County of Sussex. Lewes: Farncombe & Co. SC. EDD.

and William Francis Shaw. 1887. A Dictionary of the Kentish Dialect and Provincialisms in use in the County of Kent. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co. EDD. SC.

NOT IN KINGKONG PROJECT

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

Anonymous. 1904. "Rev. William Douglas Parish: Obituary.·" The Times Sept. 26: 8. [Accessed 19th April 2021.

Lucas, Perceval. 2004. "Parish, William Douglas, 1833-1904". Rev. by John D. Haigh. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. [Accessed 19th April 2021.

Rev. William Douglas Parish. [Accessed 19th April 2021.

Roper, Jonathan. 2007. "Sussex Glossarists and their Illustrative Quotations." Sussex Archaeological  Collections 145: 189-194. [Accessed 19th April 2021.

Roper, Jonathan. 2018. "The clergyman and the dialect speaker: Some Sussex examples of a nineteenth century research tradition." in Laura Wright. ed. Southern English Varieties Then and Now. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 110-131.

W.D. Parish, the Dialect Dictionary and Lewis Carroll. [Accessed 19th April 2021.

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William Douglas Parish

(1833-1904)