Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld (27 March 1870–26 January 1945)[1] was a notable English lexicographer and philologist.
Wyld was born in 1870 and attended Charterhouse School from 1883 to 1885; he was then privately educated in Lausanne from 1885 to 1888.
[1] From 1904 to 1920, Wyld was Baines Professor of English Language and Philology at the University of Liverpool.
He was Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Merton College, Oxford, from 1920 until his death in 1945.
Wyld was awarded the British Academy Biennial Prize for contributions to the study of the English Language and Literature in 1932.