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Hugh Smith was the son of Albert John Smith, a butler, and Anne Smith of Sowerby, West Yorkshire.
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This volume covers an administrative area the boundaries of which remained virtually unchanged from Viking times until the late twentieth century. From 1974 until 1997 the East Riding was partitioned between the two non- Metropolitan Counties of North Yorkshire and of Humberside, but the latest reorganization has placed most of the area in East Yorkshire. The City of York has been transferred to North Yorkshire, but some places now within that city but formerly in Ainsty Wapentake are discussed in Part IV of The Place-Names of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The editor notes a particular problem in the study of East Riding places and their names, namely the washing away of villages along the Humber and the North Sea coast, complicated further by the appearance of new stretches of alluvial deposits, exemplified by Ravenser Odd and Sunk Island. The obscure place-name element spen is discussed in an appendix (pp. 330 - 2). An end-pocket contains a county map (showing boundaries of wapentakes and townships) and six distribution maps (locating hill, marshland and woodland place-names and names containing various English and Scandinavian elements).
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lecturer scholar of Old English
Hugh Smith was the son of Albert John Smith, a butler, and Anne Smith of Sowerby, West Yorkshire.
He was educated at Rishworth School, West Yorkshire, and, after a time working as a railway booking clerk, he went to Leeds University where he was awarded 1st Class Bachelor in English in 1924 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1926. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis was on the place-names of the North Riding and the study of place-names remained of continuing interest to him, resulting in several publications. In 1937 he was awarded a Doctor of Letters degree at London University.
He was Vaughan Fellow at Leeds University from 1924 to 1926, and was then lecturer in English at Saltley College, Birmingham from 1926 to 1928. In 1928 he went to Sweden and was English lecturer at Uppsala University, returning to England in 1930 to University College London (University College London) as a lecturer and reader. During World World War II, he enlisted in the Royal Air Force as an intelligence officer and in 1941 joined the Scientific Intelligence Unit of the Air Ministry under R V Jones, ending with the rank of Wing Commander.
He was awarded the Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his war-time work in 1947.
In 1949 he succeeded Raymond Wilson Chambers as Quain Professor of English at University College London. One of his successors was his former student Randolph Quirk.
He was director of Scandinavian studies at University College London from 1946 to 1963. In 1951 he took over the Survey of English Place‑Names, on which work had virtually ceased during the war.
He produced a large number of publications and was also joint editor of Methuen’s series of Old English Library and of the Early English Texts Society"s Facsimile of The Parker Chronicle and Laws 1941.
His interests beyond literature included cricket, horology and mechanical engineering. He built a printing press to demonstrate bibliographical problems, but it was destroyed in the bombing of University College London during the war. He was described in his obituary in the Times as "a most lovable character who appeared to be of more than human stature.
He could be maddening alike in matters of scholarship and in personal relations, though one"s irritation never lasted long".
Randolph Quirk (as RQ) in a follow-up letter referred particularly to his "hospitality and loyalty". They had two children.
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