Ronald Stuart McGregor, commonly R. S. McGregor (or Stuart McGregor) (24 October 1929 – 19 August 2013), was a philologist of the

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. Best known as editor of the ''Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary'', a standard reference work published in 1993 after a sustained effort of twenty years, McGregor was a Fellow of Wolfson College and retired as Reader in Hindi at the

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Biography

McGregor was born in

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in 1929. His parents were Scottish. He was educated at Ashburton High School before going up to

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, and then to Merton College, Oxford to read English, matriculating in 1952, taking his BA in 1954, and studying Germanic Philology until 1956. He held posts at

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and then went to the

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in 1959–60 to study Hindi. In 1964 he took up the post of University Lecturer in Hindi at Cambridge in 1964. His PhD thesis, ''The Language of Indrajit of Orchā – A Study of Early Braj Bhāsā Prose'', was published in 1968. McGregor married Elaine Langdon in 1960; they had two sons.

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* * 2013 deaths Fellows of Wolfson College, Cambridge Hindi-language writers Lexicographers Linguists of Hindi 1929 births Alumni of Merton College, Oxford {{academic-bio-stub