![]() Murray encounters competing viewpoints when eating dinner with the committee. When Max Müller smugly demands credentials, Murray rattles off the extensive list of classical and contemporary languages in which he is fluent and immediately offers a definition, along with Wordsworth's likely etymologies-on demand. Despite the disdain of certain Oxford University Press oversight committee members, Freddie Furnivall calls their current situation an "abject defeat" and suggests they could need the exceptional Murray. He is an autodidact who dropped out of school at age 14. James Murray attends an interview at Oxford to become the editor of the future Oxford English Dictionary. William Chester Minor, a former surgeon from the United States Army, is committed to Broadmoor after being charged not guilty of murdering George Merrett in London in 1872. ![]() Minor, a doctor who became Murray's friend and coworker and who contributed more than 10,000 entries while confined to the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Crowthorne after being acquitted of murder due to insanity. The movie is about professor James Murray, who was appointed director of The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by Oxford University Press in 1879. ![]() Sean Penn and Mel Gibson were the artistes starring in the film. The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester, published in the US as ‘The Professor and the Madman’ in 1998, served as an inspiration for the 2019 biographical drama film of the same title directed by Farhad Safinia. ![]()
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