E

elephant

in Dictionary of the English Language, 90, 95, 96

in hotel names, 81–82

in Oxford English Dictionary, 101–102

Ellis, Alexander, 37–38, 40

Elworthy, F. T., 165

Elyot, Thomas, 83, 102

English Dictionarie (Cockeram), 86

English language, spread of, 78, 87

F

Firste Booke (Castanheda), 142

Fisher, Mrs. (Minor's landlady), 16, 19, 64

fixing, in lexicography, 91

Fowler, Henry, 30

Fryer, John, New Account of East Indies and Persia, 159

Furnival, Frederick, 107

appeal for volunteer readers, 108

death, 205–206

as editor of Oxford English Dictionary, 109–111, 135

influence on Murray, 39, 40

personality, 38–39, 165

Unregistered Words Committee, 107

G

Gibbs, Henry Huck (Lord Aldenham), 165

Glossographia (Blount), 86

Goldstücker, Theodor, 166

Government Hospital for the Insane (Washington, DC; now St. Elizabeth's)

Minor at, 70–71, 199

Minor's patient number, 209

Minor's release from, 216–217

Green, Jonathan, 173

H

Hall, Fitzedward, 166–167, 186

Hawick (Scotland), 32, 34

Herbert, Thomas, Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, 142

Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, 118

Huxley, Thomas H., 191

I

inkhorn terms, 85

Irishmen

branding for desertion, social consequences of, 63

Minor's fears of, 16–17, 18, 64

service in Civil War, 56–58

J

Johnson, Samuel

honorary degree from Oxford, 96

Macauley's description of, 97

method of dictionary making, 94–95

Murray's praise of, 98

Smollett's description of, 89

sponsors, 93–94

views on fixing language, 92–93, 99

See also Dictionary of the English Language

K

Knowles, Elizabeth, 173–174

Kraepelin, Emil, 210

L

Lambeth (London), 2–3, 6–9, 17, 118

Lambeth Tragedy, 4

lexicographer, in Dictionary of the English Language, 95

lexicography, 91, 104, 151

Liddell, Henry, 40

Literary and Philosophical Society (Hawick), 34

London Library, 77–78, 103

London Necropolis Railway, 7

London Philological Society. See Philogical Society

lunatic, in Oxford English Dictionary, 43

M

Macauley, Thomas Babington, 97

Markham, Gervase, Country Farme, 155

Martin, Benjamin, 93

Martineau, Russell, 165

masturbate, in Oxford English Dictionary, 189

McNaughton Rules, 20

Mencken, H. L., 219

Merrett, Eliza

children, 14, 225

life and marriage, 8–10, 179

relationship with Minor, 126–127, 128, 133, 176, 194–195, 225

Merrett, George

funeral of, 224

grave site, 225

life and marriage, 8–10

murder of (Feb. 17, 1872), 3–4, 10–14, 19, 223–224

suicides of relatives, 225

Mill Hill School, 110, 112

Minnetonka, the, 202

Minor, Alfred W., 72, 122, 195, 199, 202

Minor, Eastman Strong, 45, 46, 68, 72, 217

Minor, Edward, 216

Minor, George, 19

Minor, William Chester

ancestry, 45

appearance, 11, 116, 177–178

army service (Union Army)

at Battle of the Wilderness, 53–58

branding Irishman as deserter, 60–61

branding of Irishman as deserter, 64

commissioned, 66–67

at Fort Barrancas (Florida), 68–69

at Governors Island (New York), 16, 66–67

in New Haven (Connecticut), 51–52

retirement from, 71–72

in Virginia hospitals, 65

volunteers for, 50, 51

autopsy reports of, 65–66

benevolence of, 126, 176, 196, 216

birth, 44, 46

book collection, 122, 137, 198, 215

at Broadmoor

accommodations, 113, 120–122, 178–179, 198

address used during stay, 114, 130, 174

discharge, 199–200

length of stay, 185

patient number, 21, 116

treatment by Brayn, 184, 185, 186, 197, 198, 200, 202

treatment by Nicholson, 176, 178, 180, 182, 185

treatment by Orange, 117, 121, 126, 178

Ceylonese girls, influence of, 44, 45

character, 15, 52, 68, 73, 176

childhood and adolescence, 46, 47, 48, 49

death, 217

dementia praecox diagnosed, 209

as Doctor Blank, 172

engagement, 68

Europe, move to, 15, 19, 73

flutist, 53, 122, 197

Minor, William Chester (continued)

at Government Hospital for the Insane (Washington, DC; now St. Elizabeth's)

first admittance, 70–71

patient number, 209

re-admittance, 199

release, 216–217

grave site, 217

health, decline in, 184–185, 196–197

in Horsemonger Lane jail, 13, 18

insanity diagnosed, 18, 69–70, 71, 72, 123, 125–126, 184, 202, 208, 209, 212

Lambeth, move to, 15, 16

languages spoken, 48

London, move to, 13, 15

magazine subscriptions, 179

masturbation, 49, 192

medical studies at Yale, 49–50

Merrett, Eliza, relationship with, 126–127, 133, 176, 194–195, 225

Merrett, George

Minor's murder of, 3–4, 10–14, 19, 223–224

Minor's remorse, 126, 225

Minor's trial for murder, 17–20

Murray, James

Minor compared to, 41, 44–45, 157, 177–178

Minor's contacts with, 174–181, 191

Minor's legendary meeting with, 168–174

Minor's relationship with, 129–130, 154–155, 156, 176, 195

praise of Minor, 167, 182

nostalgie de la boue, 15, 67–68, 72

Oxford English Dictionary

contributions to, 146, 154, 155, 156, 159–160, 181, 182, 184–185

first quotation published in, 154

therapeutic value of work for, 133, 214

voluntary reader for, becomes, 113–114, 129, 133

working method for, 138–143, 181, 182

paranoia

diagnosed, 208–209

fears of being attacked, 18–19, 67, 124–125, 158–159, 216

fears of being ridiculed, 69

fears of books being damaged, 157, 158

fears of food being tampered with, 183

fears of forceful sex, 123–124, 179–180, 208

fears of Irishmen, 16–17, 64

parents, 45, 46

post-traumatic stress disorder, 213

religious fervor, 190–192

Ruskin, John, meeting with, 15, 16, 73

schizophrenia, 211–212

self-mutilation, 190, 193–194

senility, 215, 217

sexual adventures/appetites, 15–16, 44, 48, 67–68, 192, 193

siblings, 45, 46, 47, 72

suicides of relatives, 183

United States, return to, 200, 202–203

watercolors, 15, 16, 69, 122, 197, 198

years in asylums, total, 211, 216–217

Modern English Usage (Fowler), 30