Adrian Room
1933
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2010
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
native language: English
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Oxford
occupation: linguist, toponymist
award received: Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Adrian Richard West Room (27 September 1933, Melksham – 6 November 2010, Stamford, Lincolnshire) was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of words and place-names.Between 1952 and 1979, Room served in the Royal Naval Reserve, Special Branch, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander. Before becoming a full-time author, he was employed at King's College School, Cambridge, where he taught modern languages and was a senior house master. He later, until 1984, worked as a senior lecturer in Russian for the Ministry of Defence. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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