Richard Stephen Charnock

Richard Stephen Charnock FSA FRGS (11 August 1820 – 2 March 1905) was an English solicitor, antiquarian, lexicographer and travel writer.

Works

• Guide to the Tyrol (1857)
• Local etymology: A derivative dictionary of geographical names (1859)
• "On the Science of Language," Anthropological Review (1863), pp. 193–215.
• "Cannibalism in Europe," Anthropological Review (1866), pp. 22–31.
• "On the Origin of the Gypsies," The Anthropological Review (1866), pp. 89–96.
• "On the Language of the Magyars," Anthropological Review, (1866), pp. 171–79.
• Verba nominalia: or, Words derived from proper names (1866)
• Ludus Patronymicus; or, The Etymology of Curious Surnames (1868)
• "Language as a Test of Race," Journal of the Anthropological Society of London, 7 (1869), pp. xxxviii–xxxix (with C. Staniland Wake)
• Ancient Manorial Customs in the County of Essex (1870)
• Patronymica Cornu-Britannica; or, The etymology of Cornish surnames (1870)
• "On the Physical, Mental, and Philological Characters of the Wallons," The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 2 (1873), pp. 10–17 (with Charles Carter Blake
• A glossary of the Essex dialect (1880)
• Nuces etymologicaæ (1889)
• Bradshaw's illustrated hand-book to Spain and Portugal (1894)

External links

• Works by Richard Stephen Charnock at JSTOR
• Works by Richard Stephen Charnock at Open Library