Jennett Humphreys

Jennett Humphreys (17 April 1829[1] – 6 February 1917) was a British author, poet, and contributor to major reference works.

Life

Humphreys was born in 1829 in Cricklewood, a district in North London, to a Scottish father, Griffith Humphreys, and English mother, Sarah Leggett Humphreys. She came from a large family and she lived with her parents until they died.[2][3] As a reader she supplied numerous quotations and other information for entries in the Oxford English Dictionary,[4] much of which was a by-product of research for an unpublished book on the early history of cooking, and wrote an article on the OED for Fraser's Magazine.[5] She was the author of nearly 100 articles in the Dictionary of National Biography becoming one of the top six contributors before being sacked without ceremony by Leslie Stephen.[2]

References

  1. ^ England & Wales, Christening Index, 1530-1980
  2. ^ a b Hewitt, M. (11 December 2025), "Humphreys, Jennett (1829–1917), writer", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000382977, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 20 December 2025
  3. ^ 1851 England Census
  4. ^ OED cite: "credited with 18,700 quotations in 1888"
  5. ^ Gilliver, Peter. "Biographical information : Oxford English Dictionary". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 20 December 2010.
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