Geoghegan, Richard Henry, 1866-1943

found: Geoghegan, Richard Henry. Richard Henry Geoghegan papers, 1936-1938(Richard Henry Geoghegan (January 8, 1866-October 27, 1943) Anglo-American philologist and the first known Esperantist from the English-speaking world. He was born in Birkenhead, England and entered the University of Oxford in 1884, to study Chinese. Geoghegan left Oxford at the end of 1887 and was an instructor of classical languages in London until 1891, when he and his widowed mother and siblings emigrated to the village of Eastsound in Washington. In 1893 he went to Tacoma, where he worked as a stenographer for an Anglican bishop, and later in the same capacity for the English and Japanese consulates. He helped found the Washington State Philological Society, and was involved in the Seattle Esperanto Society. He unsuccessfully sought a position as professor of Chinese language at the University of Washington and in 1903 accepted an invitation to go to Fairbanks, Alaska as a court stenographer. The opportunity to study firsthand Aleut and other native languages of the region appealed to Geoghegan. He remained a resident of Faribanks until his death, and was said to have command of at least 200 languages and dialects. His dictionary and grammar of the Aleut language was published posthumously)

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