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Harold Orton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was a British dialectologist and professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds.
Orton, Harold (1898–1975), dialectologist, was born on 23 October 1898 in the village of Byers Green, co. Durham, younger son of the village schoolmaster, Thomas Orton (d. 1942), and his wife, Emily, née Blair.
Two professors, Harold Orton from the University of Leeds and Eugen Dieth from the University of Zurich, were discussing the wide range of dialects in England. These dialects, particularly in rural and remote parts of the country, give language scholars valuable clues about how English was spoken in the past – as far back as the Middle Ages.
If so, you may be just what Harold Orton was looking for when he formed his team of dialect fieldworkers to gather information for the original Survey of English Dialects. Orton’s fieldworkers, travelled up and down the country in the 1950s and 60s, recording the local dialects of England and its border regions.
Harold Orton 1898-1975 On the 7th March 1975 at Leeds the death occurred in his 77th year of one of the most distinguished past members of our Associa-tion, Professor Emeritus Harold Orton. Besides having contributed to Le Maitre Phonetique on occasion, he must be remembered in our field as having borne the chief responsibility for the ...
John Kingsley Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967), known by the pen name of Joe Orton, was an English playwright, author, and diarist. His public career, from 1964 until his murder in 1967, was short but highly influential.
On the 7th March 1975 at Leeds the death occurred in his 77th year of one of the most distinguished of British scholars, Professor Emeritus Harold Orton. He was born on the 23rd of October in 1898 to a schoolmaster at Byers Green, a village in County Durham of which both his parents were natives.
