The Surgeon of Crowthorne
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Pro
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William Chester Minor
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William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.
The Surgeon of Crowthorne
…United States and Canada. The book tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most prolific early contributors, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon. Minor was, at the time, detained in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, near the village of Crowthorne, in…
Minor c. 1900
The "Lion Brewery" where Minor shot George Merrett