Joshua Whatmough (June 30, 1897 – April 25, 1964) was an English linguist, professor, and writer from Rochdale, Lancashire who served as the president of the Linguistics Society of America in 1951.[1] He was also the chairman of the department of linguistics at Harvard University from 1926 to his retirement in 1963.[2] He studied comparative philology and classics at the University of Manchester and the University of Cambridge.[3][4]