Robert Burchfield

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 by BBC

Apr 20, 198537:51Society & Culture

Robert Burchfield, who has been Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1957, was born in New Zealand. After fighting in Italy during the war, he came to England to complete his education and stayed on to be...

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