Sir William A Craigie

Sir William A. Craigie 1867-1957, British lexicographer, b. Dundee, Scotland. Educated at the Univ. of St. Andrews, Craigie studied Scandinavian languages at Copenhagen before beginning in 1893 his career as lecturer at St. Andrews and as lecturer and professor at Oxford. Generally considered the foremost lexicographer of his time, he was engaged on the New English Dictionary (commonly called the Oxford Dictionary ) after 1897 and was joint editor from 1901 to 1933. Craigie was persuaded to come to the United States and was the chief editor of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles (issued in parts after 1936; published as 4 vol., 1938-43). He also edited other dictionaries, made critical editions of texts, and wrote monographs and textbooks on the English language.

Flint, Sir William Russell (b Edinburgh, 4 Apr. 1880; d London, 27 Dec. 1969). British painter and graphic artist. He trained as a lithographer and was a prolific book illustrator, but is now best remembered for his watercolours (particularly his mildly erotic nudes), painted in a distinctive and rather flashy style. ‘He was a modest and unassuming man, a fine and versatile craftsman, entirely detached from everything that was controversial or experimental in the art of his time’ (DNB). His son Francis Russell Flint (1915–77) was also a painter.

Flint, Sir William Russell (1880–1969). British painter, printmaker, and illustrator, born in Edinburgh, the son of a commercial artist. After a six-year apprenticeship with a firm of lithographic printers he moved to London in 1900. In 1903–7 he was a staff artist on the Illustrated London News, and then he went freelance. He was a prolific and highly successful book illustrator, but is now best remembered for his watercolours (particularly his mildly erotic nudes and Spanish gypsy scenes), painted in a distinctive, rather flashy style. From 1936 to 1956 he was president of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colour. ‘He was a modest and unassuming man, a fine and versatile craftsman, entirely detached from everything that was controversial or experimental in the art of his time’ (DNB). His son Francis Russell Flint (1915–1977) was also a painter.