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Hornby, A S (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Hornby, A S
Used for/see from:
  • Honbi, A. S.
  • Honbi, Ei Esŭ
  • Hornby, A. S. (Albert Sydney)

Palmer, H. E. Thousand-word English ... 1937

Kamus pembaca, Inggeris-Melayu, 1980: t.p. (A.S. Hornby)

Advanced learner's dictionary of current English. Korean & English. Honbi Yŏng-Yŏng-Han sajŏn, 1981: colophon (Ei Esŭ Honbi)

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, [2015] t.p. (A.S. Hornby)

A S Hornby Educational Trust website, viewed 17 May 2018 (the A S Hornby Educational Trust was founded in 1961 by A S Hornby, an English language specialist; "the man who made dictionaries"; Albert Sydney Hornby was born in Chester in 1898, completed a degree in English Language and Literature at University College London in 1922, and went to teach English in Japan in 1923; joined the programme of vocabulary research at the Tokyo Institute for Research into English Teaching (IRET) in 1931 and became its head of research in 1936; returned to England in 1942 and joined the British Council; posted to Iran where he worked as a lecturer and teacher trainer; in 1945 he was appointed Linguistic Adviser to the British Council in London; made a fellow of University College of London in 1976; awarded a Master of Arts degree at the University of Oxford in 1978; died in 1978)