Adrian Room

Adrian Richard West Room (27 September 1933, Melksham – 6 November 2010, Stamford, Lincolnshire)[1][2] was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society[3] and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of words and place-names.[4]

Between 1952 and 1979, Room served in the Royal Naval Reserve, Special Branch, retiring as a lieutenant commander.[1] Before becoming a full-time author, he was employed at King's College School, Cambridge, where he taught modern languages and was a senior house master. He later, until 1984, worked as a senior lecturer in Russian for the Ministry of Defence.[5]

  1. ^ a b Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002; accessed 20 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Room Adrian (Notice of death)". Stamford Mercury Group (Rutland & Stamford Mercury). 12 November 2010. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ Cover notes, Place-Name Changes Since 1900: A world gazetteer. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. ISBN 0710007027
  4. ^ Contributor biographical information for Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable/compiled by Adrian Room, Library of Congress, 21 May 2013; retrieved 21 May 2013. Archived here.
  5. ^ "Adrian Room". Book Alliance, New Delhi. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 21 June 2015.