British writer and grammarian (1871–1918)
Francis George Fowler (1871–1918) was an English writer on English language, grammar and usage.
Born in Tunbridge Wells , Fowler was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge .[ 1] He lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands . He and his older brother, Henry Watson Fowler , wrote The King's English together, an influential book published in 1906. Later they worked on what became Fowler's Modern English Usage ,[ 2] but before it was finished, Francis died of tuberculosis , picked up during his service with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I. He was 47 years old.
Henry dedicated Modern English Usage to Francis, writing, "he had a nimbler wit, a better sense of proportion, and a more open mind, than his twelve-year-older partner."
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