Hornby, Albert Sydney

LC control no.	n 50030794
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Hornby, Albert Sydney *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Honbi, A. S. Honbi, Ei Esŭ Hornby, A. S. (Albert Sydney)
See also	Founded corporate body of person: A. S. Hornby Educational Trust *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Associated country	Great Britain England Japan Iran
Associated place	London (England) Tokyo (Japan)
Birth date	1898
Death date	1978
Place of birth	Chester (England)
Field of activity	English language
Affiliation	Tokyo Institute for Research into English Teaching British Council University College, London University of Oxford
Profession or occupation	College teachers
Found in	Palmer, H. E. Thousand-word English ... 1937 Kamus pembaca, Inggeris-Melayu, 1980: t.p. (A.S. Hornby) Advanced learner's dictionary of current English. Korean & English. Honbi Yŏng-Yŏng-Han sajŏn, 1981: colophon (Ei Esŭ Honbi) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, [2015] t.p. (A.S. Hornby) A S Hornby Educational Trust website, viewed 17 May 2018 (the A S Hornby Educational Trust was founded in 1961 by A S Hornby, an English language specialist; "the man who made dictionaries"; Albert Sydney Hornby was born in Chester in 1898, completed a degree in English Language and Literature at University College London in 1922, and went to teach English in Japan in 1923; joined the programme of vocabulary research at the Tokyo Institute for Research into English Teaching (IRET) in 1931 and became its head of research in 1936; returned to England in 1942 and joined the British Council; posted to Iran where he worked as a lecturer and teacher trainer; in 1945 he was appointed Linguistic Adviser to the British Council in London; made a fellow of University College of London in 1976; awarded a Master of Arts degree at the University of Oxford in 1978; died in 1978)
Associated language	eng