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The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

John Walker (1732–1807)

Walker, John. An English actor, teacher, lecturer, and dictionary-maker; born at Colney Hatch near London, March 18, 1732; died in London, Aug. 1, 1807. His books are a ‘Rhyming Dictionary’ (1775); ‘Elements of Elocution’ (1781); ‘Rhetorical Grammar’ (1785); and a ‘Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language’ (1791).