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Duncan Probert
Duncan Probert (born 13 April 1961, died on 15 December 2016) was a scholar of early medieval British place- and personal names, one of the editors of the ''Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland'', and a council member of the English Place-Name Society from 2005 to his death. He was particularly noted for his work in his doctoral thesis and subsequent publications revising scholars' 'understanding of the relationship between the Wessex, West Saxons and the Dumnonia, Britons of the south west' in Britain in the Middle Ages, early medieval Britain. This included major contributions to understanding ''Kingston'' place-names in England, and 'searching' and 'painstaking' research showing 'how close scrutiny of charters and their Boundaries in landscape history, bounds can allow detailed understanding of earlier land units and landscapes'. Life Prior to beginning his career as a historian, Probert worked as 'a bio-mathematician at Grassland Research Institute, Grassla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Place-Name Society
The English Place-Name Society (EPNS) is a learned society concerned with toponomastics and the toponymy of England, in other words, the study of place-names ( toponyms). Its scholars aim to explain the origin and history of the names they study, taking into account factors such as the meaning of the elements out of which they were created (whether from the principal endemic tongues Old English, early Welsh, Danish, Norwegian, Cornish, Latin, Norman French – or others); the topography, geology and ecology of the places bearing the names; and the general and local history and culture of England. History In 1922 Professor Allen Mawer read a paper to the British Academy proposing a survey of English place-names. He obtained the formal and financial support of the academy. Within a year he had brought into being a society composed of interested persons, provided it with a constitution, and laid down the lines of its future conduct. The headquarters of the Society were fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
