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	William Chester Minor
		Minor, June 1834 - March 26, 1920) was born on the island of Ceylon, the son of Congregationalist Church missionaries from New England.
		In time Minor's condition grew worse; his health failed and he was permitted to return to the United States and St. Elizabeth's.
		Psychiatry had progressed in the meantime and Dr. Minor was diagnosed as suffering from dementia praecox or schizophrenia.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/dr/Dr._W._C._Minor.html (537 words)

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		William Chester Minor Dr. William Chester Minor was a very unique volunteer contributor to the first edition of The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) due to the fact that he was incurably insane.
		Minor, who was born in 1834 in Ceylon, was the son of wealthy missionaries Thomas and Mary Murray.
		When Minor reached the age of fourteen, his parents began to notice their son’s obsession with the young Ceylonese girls who roamed naked around the island and sent him to live with an uncle in America, hoping that relocating him would put him out of danger.
	www.uwrf.edu /~W1082720/Minor.doc (356 words)

	William Chester Minor, insane murderer and amateur lexicographer
		William Chester Minor (1834-1920), was born in Sri Lanka of American parents and after graduation from Yale Medical School in 1863 joined the Union Army at the height of the Civil War as a surgeon, a commission that would unnerve him badly.
		Not Minor’s prodigious sexual appetite, which began at the age of 13, nor the horrors he underwent as a surgeon during the American Civil War (including the nasty part he was required to play in the punishment of a deserter in 1864).
		Murray’s relationship with Minor was such that he and Ada actually came to farewell the frail 76-year-old Minor the day he left, and even arranged for a formal photograph to be taken in the Broadmoor garden.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage14/William-Chester-Minor.html (2307 words)

	Murders
		Minor was a clever sensitive lad who painted, played the flute, and spoke several languages but kept having "lascivious thoughts" about the local girls so he was sent 'back' to America when he was 14 to live with an Uncle.
		On the afternoon of April 6, 1872 Dr. William Chester Minor was judged not guilty on grounds of insanity, and was detained "until Her Majesty's Pleasure be known" as a "certified criminal lunatic" at the Asylum for the Criminally Insane in Broadmoor, Crowthorne, Berkshire.
		Williams, one of the hospital house surgeons, who said that either of the two wounds to the neck, produced by bullets, was sufficient to account for death, the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against the prisoner, and the coroner made out his warrant accordingly.
	www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Murders.html (4564 words)

	William Chester Minor
		William Chester Minor ("W. Minor," June 1834 - March 26, 1920) was born on the island of Ceylon, the son of Congregationalist Church missionaries from New England.
		Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated in the asylum at Broadmoor in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire.
		One of William Minor's contribution slips can be seen on the Oxford English Dictionary web site.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/w/wi/william_chester_minor.html (622 words)

	Fun_People Archive - 9 Dec - Autopeotomy?
		William Chester Minor was a Connecticut surgeon traumatized by the Civil War, convicted of murder in London and institutionalized in a two-room, book-lined cell.
		Minor, whose confinement did not keep him from owning a handsome collection of 17th- and 18th-century literature, was his most dependable contributor.
		Minor, meanwhile, was an unstable ex- surgeon who had murdered a stranger on the streets of London and had been committed to Broadmoor, less than 40 miles from Oxford.
	www.langston.com /Fun_People/1998/1998AYV.html (1468 words)

	Press: The Professor and the Madman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Some combination of the prisoner’s screams, the bubbling flesh and Minor’s lust for the half-naked native girls of his Ceylonese youth seem to have compounded themselves into a sometimes-homicidal mania.
		Minor, the hapless, deranged American surgeon and murderer, would become one of his greatest helpers.
		Minor was born in the former Ceylon (Sri Lanka today) to Protestant missionaries from old New England families.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/document49a8-2.html (600 words)

	The Michigan Daily Online
		He is one of the most prolific contributors to the dictionary for, from his home in rural England, he mailed Murray scads of definitions that wound up in the dictionary.
		The reason, as well as the explanation for Minor's impressive use of his free time, is disclosed in the first few pages of the book.
		Minor was a convicted murderer and inmate of Broadmoor Asylum for the Insane.
	www.pub.umich.edu /daily/1998/nov/11-12-98/arts/arts10.html (488 words)

	Booknotes
		A fascinating portrait of Dr. W.C. Minor, an American Civil War veteran confined to a British insane asylum, who contributed more than 10,000 definitions during the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, known as one of the greatest literary achievements in the history of English letters.
		William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands who submitted quotations illustrative of words to be used in the dictionary.
		But Minor was no ordinary contributor; he was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, 50 milles from Oxford.
	www.booknotes.org /Program/?ProgramID=1488 (447 words)

	William Chester Minor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Minor) (June 1834–March 26, 1920) was an American surgeon who made many scholarly contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary while confined to a lunatic asylum.
		After a pre-trial period spent in London's Horsemonger Lane Gaol, Minor was found not guilty by reason of insanity and incarcerated in the asylum at Broadmoor in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire.
		The science of psychiatry had progressed in the meantime and Dr. Minor was diagnosed as suffering from dementia praecox or schizophrenia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Chester_Minor (674 words)

	ARTICLES: A murder and the OED -DAWN - Books and Authors; May 12, 2002
		Born in Sri Lanka, of American parents, Minor graduated in medicine from Yale, and joined the American army as a surgeon, when the civil war was underway.
		Though he was held legally innocent of a murder because of his mental condition, Dr Minor was declared “certified criminal lunatic” to be held in permanent custody.
		Minor was irreversibly mentally ill, but in his moments of clearness, he had contributed scores of thousands of illustrative quotations, all of which proved useful.
	www.dawn.com /weekly/books/archive/020512/books7.htm (881 words)

	Great Reads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		William Chester Minor was the son of well-to-do missionaries.
		The relationship between Minor and Murray is never far away, and the friendship that evolves is both charming and melancholy, as much because of the Victorian context as the knowledge that medical science offered nothing substantial to aid Dr.
		That Minor is able to throw himself so wholeheartedly into his work on the dictionary, and provide such value to a timeless document, is the triumph of a good man, betrayed by what should have been his most trusted property.
	www.newmysteryreader.com /books_we_love_2.htm (2352 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - England - Berkshire - Broadmoor’s word-finder - Article Page 1
		Dr William Chester Minor arrived in Crowthorne, Berkshire on 17th April 1872, passing through the forbidding gates of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum to begin an incarceration that lasted 38 troubled years.
		Born in Ceylon, in 1834, Minor was the son of New England missionaries.
		A sensitive and courteous man, who painted and played the flute, Minor was exposed to the full ferocity and horror of war at the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864 - a battle noted for the horrific casualties it incurred.
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/myths_legends/england/berkshire/article_1.shtml (354 words)

	Simon Winchester \|\| Harper Collins Publishers
		William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary.
		Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him.
		THE PROFESSOR AND THE MADMAN is an extraordinary tale of madness and genius, and the incredible obsessions of two men at the heart of the Oxford English Dictionary and literary history.
	www.simonwinchester.com /books/pm_description.html (939 words)

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		Minor later became what would probably be diagnosed as schizophrenic today and, while living in England, he killed a man during a delusional episode.
		But in 1871 when Dr. Minor murdered a Londoner named George Merritt, the OED was only a concept, a lofty vision set forth by an Anglican cleric, Dr. Richard Chenevix Trench, in 1857, before the Philological Society at the London Library.
		Minor, who was allowed to have a large library of books, became one of the dictionary's most prolific volunteer contributors for more than 20 years, along the way developing a unique and poignant friendship with the dictionary's editor, Professor James Murray.
	www.us-english.org /inc/news/use_in_news/viewArticle.asp?ID=35 (1192 words)

	BBC - Legacies - Myths and Legends - England - Berkshire - Broadmoor’s word-finder
		In 1872 it admitted one of its most famous patients ever: Dr William Chester Minor, an American surgeon.
		Suffering from delusions and paranoia, Minor was committed to Broadmoor after murdering a man in London, and remained under lock and key for 38 years, before being transferred to an asylum in America.
		His work led to a lasting friendship with one of the dictionary’s editors, Dr James Murray, however, the story of their first meeting has been shrouded in myth, until very recently, when new research exposed the tale as "an amusing and romantic fiction".
	www.bbc.co.uk /legacies/myths_legends/england/berkshire (192 words)

	The Professor And The Madman
		Minor had an enormous collection of books in his cell, which were not available to Murray and the staff, where the dictionary was being created.
		Upon arrival Murray discovered that Minor was not a doctor of the asylum as he had assumed, but a resident.
		Minor’s stepbrother began writing appeals to the court, asking that his brother be allowed to transfer to a hospital in the United States.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/10/bwa234.shtml (977 words)

	'The Professor And The Madman' by Simon Winchester
		Minor, who wound up in England after the war, nursing a mind deteriorating rapidly from unknown causes, was convicted of murdering an Englishman in London, found insane and sent to the Asylum for Criminal Lunatics at Broadmoor (a somewhat less than politically correct approach to naming institutions, to be sure).
		Winchester’s tale is skillfully crafted using documents from Minor’s confinement, the U.S. Army and recollections of distant relatives, including Minor’s hapless victim, whose death sparked the entire episode.
		The author recounts and then rebuts as journalistic hyperbole the somewhat apocryphal first meeting between the two men in Minor’s two-room suite at the asylum, where he was allowed to establish his own library and pay other inmates to do menial work for him.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19981129review148.asp (281 words)

	The Professor and The Madman... Four and a Half Stars!
		It's the Turn of the Century, the Oxford English Dictionary is shaping up to be the greatest collection of the English language in history, and William Chester Minor, one of the major contributors, is not responding to the celebratory invitations.
		OED editor James Murray investigates, only to discover that Minor is a committed resident of an insane asylum and the confessed murderer of an innocent man (the result of paranoid delusions).
		Minor, an American Civil War surgeon, was progressing into insanity even before the horrors he experienced in the clashes between Union and Rebel troops.
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /profandmad.html (1087 words)

	Delusions & Grandeur, Dr. William Minor's contribution to the Oxford dictionary - The Crime library
		The murderer, 37-year-old William Chester Minor, was an American who had recently moved to Lambeth several months earlier.
		Minor claimed that he accidentally mistook George for someone else.
		The police were troubled by Minor's mental state and began to wonder whether he was fit to stand trial.
	crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/classics/william_minor/index.html (879 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester
		The madman is dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon, committed in a home for the criminally insane.
		Minor was truly a disturbed man, with paranoiac delusions that had led to the murder he committed.
		Winchester's thorough exploration of Murray's and Minor's intersecting lives is a very enjoyable read that will charge the way you look at dictionaries forever.
	www.homestead.com /RantsRavesReviews/ProfessorMadman.html (301 words)

	The Professor And The Madman \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		The OED was not the product of just one man, and the dictionary took 70 years to complete, but the results are so literally definitive—and the OED so illustrative of everything in the English language from etymology to slang—that it's a wonder the tomes didn't just drop from the sky.
		Winchester's fascinating book revolves around the relationship between Minor and OED editor James Murray, who corresponded with Minor for 20 years before discovering the strange truth behind the shy contributor.
		Winchester skillfully fleshes out the tangential and sad story of Minor and Murray with a great deal of biographical information, historical context, and erudite asides regarding the nature of language, knowledge, friendship, reference books, and madness.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/19866 (273 words)

	How new words come to be \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Minor was an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War and was now living in England.
		Minor continued contributing to the dictionary, sending in more than 10,000 submissions in 20 years.
		Minor died in 1920, seven years before the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was completed.
	www.csmonitor.com /2002/0716/p18s02-hfks.html (1545 words)

	NewStandard: 10/25/98
		Murray and Minor's friendship was a highlight of one of the longest, most cerebral quests in English history -- the quest for the ultimate catalog of the English language.
		Minor, meanwhile, was an unstable ex-surgeon who had murdered a stranger on the streets of London and had been committed to Broadmoor, less than 40 miles from Oxford.
		The dictionary was completed in 1928, but neither Minor nor Murray lived to see it.
	www.s-t.com /daily/10-98/10-25-98/e07ae177.htm (1439 words)

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