Timeline
Lifetime:
1857 -
1937
Passed: ≈
87 years ago
Title
School Inspector
Country/Nationality
United States
George L. Apperson
George Latimer Apperson was a school inspector and man of letters.
He was editor of The Antiquary from 1899–1915, and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, both submitting large numbers of quotations and serving as subeditor for parts.
Apperson was created Companion of the Imperial Service Order in 1903, for his service in the Scotch Education Department within the Scottish Office at Whitehall.
Books by George L. Apperson
The Social History of Smoking
History
Non-Fiction
Social Science
Culture
Society
Anthropology
England
Smoking
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has fitted in with the fashions and cust...