Background
WYLD, Henry Cecil Kennedy was born on March 27, 1870. Son of late Henry Wyld, Commander Honourable East India Company’s Service (5th son of James Wyld, D.L. of Gilston, Fife), and Louise, daughter of Benjamin Kennedy.
WYLD, Henry Cecil Kennedy was born on March 27, 1870. Son of late Henry Wyld, Commander Honourable East India Company’s Service (5th son of James Wyld, D.L. of Gilston, Fife), and Louise, daughter of Benjamin Kennedy.
Charterhouse (1883-1885). Private tutor in Lausanne (1885-1888). Universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Oxford (Corpus Christi College).
Bachelor of Letters.
Lecturer in the English Language at University College, Liverpool, 1899. Special Inspector in the Teaching of Phonetics in the Training Colleges of Scotland, 1902, and later in the English Language in addition, 1904. Chairman of the Faculty of Arts, University of Liverpool, 1904-1905.
PublvxLtions: Contributions to the History of the Guttural Sounds in English, 1899. Law in Language, 1900. Initial Palatal Sounds in the Dialects of Middle and Modern English, 1902.
The Neglect of the Study of English in the Training of Teachers, 1904. The Study of Living Popular Dialects and its Place in the Modern Science of Language, 1904. The Historical Study of the Mother Tongue, 1906.
The Place of the Mother Tongue in National Education, 1906. The Growth of English, 1907. The Teaching of Reading in Training Colleges.
Elementary Lessons in English Grammar. Various articles in English and German periodicals on philological subjects. Oxfordshire; Baines Professor of English Language and Philology at the University of Liverpool since 1904.
Clubs: University, Liverpool; Oxford and County, Oxford.
Spouse 1890, Grace Muriel,daughter of late John Proctor of Balina, Co.