Partridge, Eric (Honeywood) (1894–1979). New Zealand-born lexicographer and writer
on usage and other subjects, born in Waimata Valley, North Island, and educated in Australia. His studies at the University of Queensland were interrupted by four years as a private in the Australian infantry during the First World War, in which he saw action at Gallipoli and the Somme. In the Second World War, though over military age, he again volunteered. After a spell as an army education officer he was invalided out, only to join the Royal Air Force, in which, after serving as a storeman, he became clerk to ‘Writer Command’, a group of writers including ... ...
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