William Craigie

A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement.

He married Jessie Kinmond Hutchen of Dundee (born 1864–65; died 1947) daughter of William.

Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read.

[4] Craigie was also fluent in Icelandic and an expert in the field of rímur (rhyming epic poems).

[5] He befriended many of the great Norse philologists of the time and came across séra Einar Guðmundsson's seventeenth-century Skotlands rímur, dealing with the Gowrie Conspiracy.