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Fowler, Francis George, 1870-1918

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Francis George Fowler (1871–1918), familiarly known as F.G. Fowler, was an English writer on English language, grammar and usage.

He was educated at Cambridge University and lived on Guernsey in the Channel Islands. He and his older (by 12 years) brother, Henry Watson Fowler, co-wrote the influential The King's English, published in 1906. The brothers Fowler worked on what was to become Fowler's Modern English Usage, but before it was completed, F.G. died of tuberculosis, contracted during service with the British Expeditionary Force, at age 47.

Henry dedicated his Modern English Usage to Francis, writing that "he had a nimbler wit, a better sense of propriety, and a more open mind, than his twelve-year older partner."

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