Langton
2 of the 7 encyclopedias on this shelf carry an entry for Langton. Both are reproduced below, so you can see where they agree and where they differ.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
STEPHEN, an English that the roots which are joined together statesman; born about 1150. He rehave been abbreviated, as in the Basque via ceived his education in the University ilhun-twilight, from hill dead+egun= of Paris, fellowstudent of the future day posed. To to give these the languages distinctive it has name been of pro in - Pope Innocent III.; he rose to the office of chancellor of the university. Innocorporating or polysynthetic languages. cent, after his elevation, gave Langton In inflectional languages, which are the a post in his household, and afterward most highly developed, the roots are capmost made him a cardinal (1206). On the able of being modified by prefixes or suf able of occasion of the disputed election to the fixes, which were once fixes, see of Canterbury in 1205-1207 Langton words. was recommended by the Pope to those Languages when classified genealogie electors who had come to Rome on the cally, are divided into families or groupsde cally, elected, was bo, June tment resisted ington was kept out made terms with the conflict of John ton was their partiis the first of the subof Magna Charta. ope excommunicated ton refused to publish b, and was in conse m his functions by But after the acceshe was reinstated Died July 9, 1228. man speech; the agarticulate sounds, called xpress perception and brand current among the expression of sounds or words; and audible sounds society, thought is ar set or aggregate of or words peculiar to a nation, tribe, or com- Fhglish language, the ete; each of these ofvarieties, to which the s been given. Lanording to two prinmorphologically, accordthe language and ich the sounds are and secondly; geneto their connection respect to origin, ists of three subdivi ominated isolating, inflectional. Isolat ich Chinese is an rely of monosyllabic, The Scythian is the Ian agglutinative the root maintains The whole group of tons, and each suf- I form and office, nian langua th this diff are joined toge as in the hill-dead+ ingates it has bean prodistinctive name of inpolysynthetic languages lope, the roots are cap addined by prefixes or sufindependent were once independent classified genealogiinamilies or groups mity of an (called nic) is com : The India Greek, the er Slavo- Entonic. E nbdivided. includes of the Ge man lang rth of Ger ortant cult Indish and n body o by only a Bo-called Ge ivision, wri Swedish, The Semitic xt in impe rian, or An cts, chief Phoenicia lonian dis an an oper pot, und lan age in a fis ts edge to by its shay save the blement, cor ede, which raceived it to an ox's mg-ch-dol rance; bour on the S. e counties on the W. (now embr Lozère, Gar Upper Loir nave deriv the period part of G chy, a hom 2the V of Toulot Languedo er), and w Pepin the this part of Tect to the great feuda e story of t and 18th ang dok), t PROVENÇA people u "as in the LANIIDÆ LANGUE-DE-BŒUF (do-al), or
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Stephen, a celebrated archbishop of Canterbury. He died in 1228. He was a writer, a theologian, a biblical scholar, a historian, and a poet. He was educated at the University of Paris. King John opposed his installation as archbishop, and Langton retaliated by heading the movement that forced King John to sign Magna Charta at Runnymede.