FYNES-CLINTON
,
OSBERT HENRY
(
1869
-
1941
),
Professor of French and Romance Philology at the University College of North Wales, Bangor
;
b.
9 Nov. 1869
, son of the
Rev.
Osbert
Fynes-Clinton
,
rector
of
Barlow Moor
,
Didsbury
. A graduate of
St. John's College
,
Oxford
, he was elected
Taylorian Scholar of the University
in
Spanish
in
1892
. He was
French master
at
King Edward's School
,
Aston
,
Birmingham
from
1896 to 1904
, when he was appointed
Professor of French and Romance Philology
at the
University College of North Wales
, a position which he held until
1937
when he retired and was appointed
Professor Emeritus
. A brilliant
linguist
, he devoted his leisure hours to a meticulous study of the
Arfon
dialect of
Welsh
, and in
1913
published
The Welsh Vocabulary of the Bangor District
, which secured for him a place of honour in the history of
Welsh
linguistics, being the only comprehensive phonetic study of the vocabulary of a
Welsh
dialect hitherto published. In recognition of his work the
University of Wales
in
1939
conferred on him the honorary degree of
D.Litt.
He d.
9 Aug. 1941
.
Bibliography:
-
Who was who?
,
1941-50
;
-
North Wales Chronicle
,
15 and 22 Aug. 1941
.
Author:
Emyr Gwynne Jones, M.A., (1911-72), Bangor
