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Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1836-1902


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    • John Miller Dow
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    • Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, 1830-1902
    • Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1830-1902
    • J. M. D. M. (John Miller Dow Meiklejohn), 1836-1902
    • M., J. M. D. (John Miller Dow Meiklejohn), 1836-1902
    • Meiklejohn, John, 1836-1902
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    • Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1830-1902
    • Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, 1830-1902
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    • found: nuc87-95686: Kant, I. Critique of pure reason [MI] 1899(hdg. on NN rept.: Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, 1830-1902; usage: J.M.D. Meiklejohn)
    • found: LC data base, 11/02/87(hdg.: Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, 1830-1902; usage: J.M.D. Meiklejohn)
    • found: Kant, Immanuel. Critique of pure reason, 1855, viewed online 24 January 2020:title page (Critique of pure reason. Translated from the German of Immanuel Kant. By J.M.D. Meiklejohn. London: Henry G. Bohn; MDCCCLV) Translator's preface, page xv (J.M.D.M.)
    • found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 24 January 2020(Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow (1836-1902), writer of school books, born in Edinburgh on 11 July 1836; graduated MA at Edinburgh University on 21 April 1858, gold medallist in Latin; at an early age he studied German philosophy, when still under 20 produced for Bohn's Philosophical Library a translation of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason; became private schoolmaster, running preparatory schools first in Bowdon, Cheshire, and then in Orme Square and York Place, London; also lectured and engaged in journalism; in 1864, a war correspondent in the Danish-German war, when was arrested as a spy; already writing school textbooks: An Easy English Grammar for Beginners, being a Plain Doctrine of Words and Sentences (in 4 parts, 1862-1866); then published his school books for himself in Paternoster Square; issued (jointly with Adolf Sonnenschein) The English Method of Teaching to Read (1869); The Fundamental Error in the Revised Code, with Special Reference to the Problem of Teaching to Read (1870); in 1874, appointed an assistant commissioner to the endowed schools commission for Scotland; in 1876, appointed as the first holder of the St Andrews chair of theory, history, and practice of education; spent much of his time as professor compiling and editing school textbooks on history, geography, and literature: numerous school texts and reading books for Blackwood's educational series (1883-1887), The Book of the English Language (1877), The English Language: its Grammar, History, and Literature (1886), The British Empire: its Geography, Resources, Commerce, Land-Ways, and Water-Ways (1891); his numerous geographical manuals updated the work of James Cornwell; series of school books, inaugurated in 1894, included book on Australasia (1897) and The Art of Writing English (1899; 4th edn, 1902); English Literature: a New History and Survey from Saxon Times to the Death of Tennyson (1904); biographer of two pioneering Scottish educationists, Andrew Bell (1881) and W. B. Hodgson (1883); regular commentator on educational matters, writing for the Journal of Education; died at his home, Highworth, Ashford, Kent, on 5 April 1902, and was buried in Ashford)
    • found: Hyamson, Albert Montefiore. A dictionary of universal biography of all ages and of all peoples, 1916, viewed online 27 January 2020(Meiklejohn, Jno. Miller Dow: Scottish educational writer, 1836-1902)
    • found: Dictionary of national biography. Second supplement, 1912, viewed online 28 January 2020:v. 2, index, page 614 (Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow; 1836-1902)
    • found: The National Archives [United Kingdom] website, 27 January 2020(Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow (1836-1920), writer of school books) - https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F64061
    • found: VIAF, 27 January 2020(authorized access points in VIAF cluster: Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow), 1830-1902 [Canadian LAC record cites Hyamson, edition not specified, as source for dates; National Library of Ireland, National Library of Israel, National Library and Archives of Québec, National Library of Catalonia, National Library of the Czech Republic, and National Library of Latvia all cite LC/NACO record], Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, 1830-1902 [National Library of Chile cites LC/NACO record as source; National Diet Library, Japan, cites USMC]), Meiklejohn, John M. D. 1830-1902 (German National Library [cites LC/NACO record as source]), Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (1830-1902) (Nukat Center of Warsaw University Library [cites LC/NACO record as source]), John Meiklejohn, Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow (1836-1920), writer of school books (Wikidata), Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow, Meiklejohn, J. M. D, Meiklejohn, J. M. D. (John Miller Dow); VIAF ID: 45220803 (Personal)) - http://viaf.org/viaf/45220803
    • found: Wikipedia, 27 January 2020(John Meiklejohn; John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (11 July 1836-5 April 1902); Scottish academic, journalist and author known for writing school books; became a private schoolmaster, first in the Lake District and then in Orme Square and York Place, London)
    • found: Wikidata, 27 January 2020(John Meiklejohn (Q18298305); description: Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow (1836-1902), writer of school books; also known as: John Miller Dow Meiklejohn, J. M. D. Meiklejohn; sex or gender: male; country of citizenship: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; date of birth: 11 July 1836: 1830 (10 references, including various authority files and Open Library sources), 1836 (1 reference: UK National Archives ID); place of birth: Edinburgh; date of death: 5 April 1902; place of death, burial: Ashford; writing language: English; occupation: journalist, literary scholar, textbook writer; notable work: Critique of Pure Reason; described by source: Dictionary of National Biography, second supplement) - http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q18298305
    • notfound: Britannica academic, 27 January 2020
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    • 1987-11-02: new
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