George Crabb (writer)

George Crabb (1778–1851) was an English legal and miscellaneous writer.

Life

He was born 8 December 1778 at Palgrave, Suffolk. He was educated at a school at Diss and under a private tutor. He began as a medical student, but became assistant to a bookseller. This he also shortly dropped to study for the ministry at Northampton, but experienced a sudden change in his religious views.[1]

In 1797 he came to London, and after his marriage to Maria Southgate, who subsequently edited ‘Tales for Children from the German,’ became classical master at Thorp Arch School, Yorkshire. To master German language he went in 1801 to Bremen, where he supported himself by teaching English.[1]

In 1814 he entered Magdalen Hall, Oxford, as a gentleman commoner, and shortly thereafter published his oft reprinted Dictionary of English Synonymes. He graduated B.A. in 1821 and M.A. in 1822, with mathematical honours. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1829, and adopted the practice of conveyancer and chamber counsel, but on account of his shy manner was not very successful.[1]

He became a recluse, and died 4 December 1851.[1]

Works

Marcus Claudius Marcellus in ''Universal Historical Dictionary

He published a German Grammar for Englishmen, Extracts from German Authors, and German and English Conversations, all popular instruction books which passed through many editions. He also wrote an English Grammar for Germans.

His main legal publications were:

He was also the author of dictionaries which obtained wide popularity, including

References

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Henderson, Thomas Finlayson (1887). "Crabb, George". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 12. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 426–427. 

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