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Halliwell-Phillipps

JAMES London, June 21, 1820; the son of scholar scholar and antiquary; born in Chelsea, Thomas Halliwell. He was educated at son of Jesus Col College, Cambridge.

Jesus College, Cambridge. His studies field of earlier English literature , plays, ballads, popular rhymes and folklore, chap-books, and English dialects , and its fruits remain in the publications of the old Shakespeare and Percy societies. In 1839 he was elected Fellow of the Royal and Antisocieties. Gradually he came to concentrate himself on Shakespeare alone and more particularly on the facts of his life, the successive editions of his "Outlines of the lines of the Life of Shakespeare" (1848; 1889) recording the growing results of his discoveries. In 1872 he took over the management of the property his wife ( died 1879) inherited from her father, Thomas Phillipps, and assumed his father-in-law's name.

Shakespeare, his "Nursery Rhymes and Apart from Nursery Tales of England" (1845) and "Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words Words" (1847; 6th ed. 1868) will keep name from being forgotten. His magnificent edition in folio of the "Works was published at a price prohibitive to of Shakespeare" ( 16 vols. 1853-1865) most students. most students. He died in Hollingbury , England, Jan. 3, 1889.

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