SKEAT, Rev

Walter, was born in 1835, and educated at King’s College School, London, and Christ’s College. Cambridge, where he graduated in SLOANE, 1858 as 14th Wrangler, ana became a Fellow in i860. In 1866-67 he was Mathematical Lecturer, and in 1867-76 English Lecturer at his College, while in 1878 he was elected to the Elrington and Bosworth Profe orship of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge. He has edited early English literature most succe fully. His chief works include a " Moeso-Gothic Glo ary,” “ The Gospels in Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions," editions of "The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman,’ "Piers the Plowman’s SLOYD, Crede,’’ " The Lay of Havelok the Dane,” etc. and for the Clarendon Pre he has edited " Specimens; of Early English Literature" and portions of Chaucer’s "Canterbury Tales.’’ His "Etymological Dictionary of the English Language ” (1879-82) marked an epoch in this branch of knowledge. It was republished in an abridged form. He has also written some poems, and translated Uhland’s songs and ballads.