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Dictionary editors

A picture of three OED editors: Onions, Bradley, and Craigie

In this section we give brief biographies of the chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.

James Murray (1837-1915)
Henry Bradley (1845-1923)
William Craigie (1867-1957)
C.T. Onions (1873-1965)
Robert Burchfield (1923-2004)
Edmund Weiner (b. 1950)
John Simpson (b. 1953)